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The other day, I saw this bumper sticker on a car:
No Jesus, No Peace
Know Jesus, Know Peace
Is that an entreaty to harmony, or an admonition? Or is it a threat?
Are Christians (or at least this particular car driving Christian) going to engage in violent behavior if we reject Jesus?
Would Jesus approve of that message?
If we promise to "Know Jesus" (hopefully not in the Biblical sense, as in the Catholic Church) will they leave us alone? I have my doubts. Since we are ordered to also submit to Jesus (translation: send me money so I can build another obscenely large mansion somewhere in the South) I'm afraid it won't really end there.
Does that car driving Christian know that Jesus was not a white anglo-saxon? Just wondering, cuz, you know, if Jesus was born today, in Bethlehem, he'd be a Palestinian.
I'm sure I assume too much. But hey, it was a bumper sticker after all. There wasn't really much to go on. Maybe he should've just gone with the Jesus fish and left it at that.
I guess the moral of the story is: do not proselytize from the back bumper of your car.
In honor of Pope Ratzinger's visit to the United States this week.
Israel's deputy defense minister, Matan Vilnai, let the cat out of the bag and exposed the Israeli Final Solution to the Gaza problem for all the world to see:
"The more Qassam [rocket] fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they will bring upon themselves a bigger shoah because we will use all our might to defend ourselves," Matan Vilnai, Israel's deputy defence minister, told army radio.
Shoah is the Hebrew word normally reserved to refer to the Jewish Holocaust. It is rarely used in Israel outside discussions of the Nazi extermination of Jews during the second world war, and many Israelis are loath to countenance its use to describe other events.
My, my, my.
The comparison of zionists to Nazis is complete, and no false cries of "anti-Semitism" can be claimed (unless you want to consider Vilnai an anti-Semite, which I certainly do, where Semite = Arab = Palestinian).
Henceforth, zionist = Nazi, and Nazi = zionist. They are one in the same, cut from the same cloth. No amount of backtracking will suffice. The illusion has been shattered. The zionists have forever branded themselves as Nazis. Like a victim of child abuse who matures into a pedophile, they have assumed the role of their victimizers and have become them.
Heil Olmert! Heil Sharon! Heil Ben Gurion!
HEIL! HEIL! HEIL!!!
Here's the latest genius scheme by the Israelis:
Olmert says "war" on militants in Gaza to continue (Reuters)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday ruled out dialogue with Hamas Islamists who control the Gaza Strip and vowed to press on with the army's "war" against militants firing cross-border rockets into Israel.
Olmert's closest confidant said Israel's strategic goal was to topple the Hamas government in the coastal territory through continued military and economic pressure.
Yeah, great strategy, MacArthur! Let's create a Mogadishu right next door to us. Because that's exactly what Israel needs: an ungoverned, arms-saturated failed state right on its border.
Is anyone paying attention to this? How many more stupid things must Israeli leaders do or say before we cut off aid completely?
On a side note, I get so sick of reading this crap all the time. From the same article:
Olmert appeared to play down prospects of a ceasefire deal with Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in June after routing forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Hamas did not "seize control" from Abbas. Hamas pre-emptively struck at the Fatah forces that were being armed and trained by Israeli and American puppetmasters to stage a coup and seize control from Hamas, which was, and still is, the democratically elected leadership of the Palestinians. I am so god damn tired of shoddy reporting like this, and its not just Reuters: you read it in the AP, in the New York Times (possibly the worst offender), Yahoo! News, and in just about every major news organization that covers world events. I can only assume the so-called "reporters" who write these articles are either cynically lazy at best or paid propagandists at worst as it sometimes seems they just look up the current talking points issued by the Bush administration and incorporate them into their articles by rote. No wonder the public is losing confidence in the press, and even the press itself is none to proud of their own work.
Of course, the real reason for Israel's problems, the OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE, is neglected until the end of the article:
"If the occupation commits itself to stopping all forms of aggression against our people, only then the factions may discuss this issue. But until then, there is no discussion among the factions over a calm," Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said.
I have been doing a little social study with the recent influx of Tottenites that have infested the blog. Rotten Totten has made the claim--without providing any supporting evidence--that I was "terrorizing" his blog, and his army of armchair idiots simply accepted it at face value and swarmed over here like locusts. No proof, no details, just accusations. It reminds me of and is pertinent to the Iranian nuke issue: the US has put forth plentiful propositions of perfidy on the part of the Persians, but has proffered no proof of their presumptuously pernicious project. Yet as my blog entry of October 30 reminds us, 52% of Americans sampled in that particular poll believe the claims of the Bush regime that Iran has a nuclear weapons program, the same administration that promised us nine ways til Sunday that Saddam Hussein had re-constituted his WMD program and was months, nay WEEKS!, away from developing a nuclear weapon. The Tottenistas are representative of the 52% of sheep that bring shame on themselves for being fooled yet a second (third? fourth? fifth?) time.
It goes deeper than that. Demonization as a propaganda tool is effective only when you have an audience that is willing to abandon any rationality they may have had and simply default to the basest, most thuggish instincts of human emotion: sheer, raw hatred. And not rational hatred, but hatred based on fear and ignorance; a cowardly hatred. The comments that have been posted like so many chicken droppings are instructive to this end. A sampling:
It is your ilk that is behind the sweeping totalitarianism you have deluded yourself into believing is a reliegion. May Allah and the rest of you sand monkeys take a long needed dirt nap!
you are a toothless pork eating terrorist in a g-string and hooker boots.
YOU FUCKING COWARDS! YOU GODDAMNED SAND FUCKING NIGGERS! FUCK YOU RIGHT UP THE ASS WITH ALLAHS PRICK. YOU ARE THE BIGGEST FUCKING ASSHOLES THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN. AMERICA SHITS UP YOU MAMA'S NASTY CUNT HOLE. FUCK OFF AND DIE DICKHEADS!
FUCK YOU AND MOHAMED!!! I think was he gay anyway. Sheep loving bitch.
hehe, another GOATFUCKER opened a blog...
THere are no such people as the Paleo-stinkian
It is about nothing more than simple racism and bigotry, and Totten predictably attracts the worst of the bunch, which is to say the same cretins that inhabit the dens of intolerance of the likes of Little Green Footballs, as but one example. These people, their psyches irreversibly damaged by the 9/11 attacks, exploited that tragedy as an opportunity to express their true colors, which is an unadulterated and deep-seated intolerance for those that they don't understand and therefore ignorantly fear. We see them here in their full, cacophonous glory, braying like a pack of frightened jack-asses. These people are the true enemies of America. They are a cancer on our society. Oblivious to the ills that our disastrous foreign policy has sown for several decades through our support of brutally unjust and viciously dictatorial regimes, their reaction to the destruction we reaped in return could only be explained to them and subsequently understood in egregiously disinformative summations: they hate us because of our freedom.
Naturally, these people adopt as their champions those of a similar disposition and mentality (and of equally low intellect, since they fear even the slightest indication of erudition). Totten reminds me of the character of Dirk Diggler in the movie Boogie Nights: a legend in his own mind and surrounded by a cast of equally mediocre but fawning cohorts who constantly affirm their belief in his "talent", which consists of nothing more than shooting his wad, while in reality he's nothing but a doped-up loser from the suburbs.
I took some time to locate pertinent examples of Totten's total ignorance of Arabs and Islam, his topic of main focus, but fortunately didn't have to spend very much time since he produces gems of idiocy on a regular basis. The most recent is this:
Lots of Arabs drink coffee, but he's right that Iraqis do not. They have a tea culture here.
Right. Iraqis, the vast majority of them Arabs, do not drink coffee. You know, that drink whose name is derived from the Arabic word qahwa. Oh, Totten. I know you're on a "freelance observer's"* budget, but Wikipedia is free to use.
And here's a nugget:
Pelosi is a fool. She knows not what she does, as evidenced by the fact that she wore a headscarf to meet with the Alawite-Baathist regime. Alawites are not Muslims, and the Assad regime fears and loathes conservative Islam.
It's good to know that I, an Alawite, am not a Muslim. Perhaps I might finally gain acceptance from some of Totten's more bigoted fan base.
What a cretin. This is a gaffe that rivals that of Imam Charles Johnson. Next time, save yourself the embarrassment and just fucking Google it. Something as simple as a Wikipedia search would've given you a clue, if you'd had any sense at all. But of course, Totten seems to fancy himself an Orientalist, and like most who qualify themselves with that colonialist era title, his is a shallow understanding of Arab and Muslim culture and history, usually that which is picked up anecdotally from other Orientalists.
I can't be bothered to find more examples at the moment, but really, is it even necessary? With the above two glaring examples, I submit it is not.
Finally, "popinjay". Nope, sorry, I don't watch Bill O'Reilly (and I don't understand why anyone would think I would). I copped it from George Galloway, from whom O'Reilly likely cribbed it. It's appropriate, since Galloway invoked it in a debate with Christopher Hitchens, whom Totten apparently idolizes.
Anyway, you monkeys can leave now. There's nothing here of interest to you, and I'll only make you angrier every time I post something. Save your slander and bile for someone who gives a shit.
* That's how one of your fanboys described you
UPDATE:
A kind reader provided more examples of Tottenism:
What is zionism?
This is zionism:
"After they built showers with a generator, so we would have hot water all the time ... the shower with the 'geyser' was abandoned and people decided that it would be like a detention cell. We brought some guy there and forgot him for three days ... He was handcuffed and had a piece of flannel over his mouth, and he couldn't talk, couldn't move, couldn't do anything. After three days, someone, I don't remember who, happened to go by there and remembered."
This is zionism:
"I went out on my first patrol ... Others on the patrol were just shooting like crazies ... I also started shooting like all the others ... It was ... look, I won't tell you that it wasn't cool, because suddenly for the first time you come and hold the weapon seriously, you're not training in some drill or in some dugout in the dunes, or I don't know what, or you have some commander who is looking over your shoulder in the firing range. Suddenly you are responsible for what you are doing. You take the gun. You shoot. You do what you want."
This is zionism:
"The truth? When there is chaos and like that, I like it. That's when I enjoy it. It's like a drug. If I don't go into Rafah and if there isn't some kind of riot once in some week, I go nuts."
This is zionism:
"The most important thing is that it removes the burden of the law from you. You feel that you are the law. You are the law. You are the one who decides ... As though from the moment you leave the place that is called Eretz Yisrael [the Land of Israel] and go through the Erez checkpoint into the Gaza Strip, you are the law. You are God."
This is zionism:
"A 3-year-old kid, he can't throw, he can't hurt you no matter what he does, but a kid of 19 can. With women I have no problem. With women, one threw a clog at me and I kicked her here [pointing to the crotch], I broke everything there. She can't have children. Next time she won't throw clogs at me. When one of them [a woman] spat at me I gave her the rifle butt in the face. She doesn't have what to spit with anymore."
This is zionism:
"We were in a weapon carrier when this guy, around 25, passed by in the street, and just like that, for no reason, he didn't throw a stone, did nothing - bang, a bullet in the stomach - he shot him in the stomach and the guy is dying on the sidewalk and we keep going, apathetic. No one gave him a second look."
This is zionism:
"They took the Arabs, the commanding officers did, and put them on the bus between the back door and the last seat, put them only between the seats. On their knees. Then they told us: Within two minutes - and this is still just basic training - within two minutes everyone is on the bus. No one steps on the seats ... And everyone started to trample them [the Arabs] and step on them on the run ... It was a really bad winter. Minus 4 degrees [Centigrade] and rain and hail ... They each went out in the middle of the night ... They weren't given time to dress. Some of them had clogs, short-sleeved shirts ... Everyone opened the windows deliberately. People poured water on them from the canteens, so they would freeze from the cold. And the whole way they were bombarded with blows ... and I mean the whole way."
This is zionism:
"After two months in Rafah a [new] commanding officer arrived ... So we do a first patrol with him. It's 6 A.M., Rafah is under curfew, there isn't so much as a dog in the streets. Only a little boy of four playing in the sand. He is building a castle in his yard. He [the officer] suddenly starts running and we all run with him. He was from the combat engineers. We all run with him. He grabbed the boy. Nufar, I am a degenerate if I am not telling you the truth. He broke his hand here at the wrist. Broke his hand at the wrist, broke his leg here. And started to stomp on his stomach, three times, and left. We are all there, jaws dropping, looking at him in shock ... The next day I go out with him on another patrol, and the soldiers are already starting to do the same thing."
What is zionism? Quite simply, it is hate, murder, occupation, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Those who support Israel support zionism. Those who support zionism support hate, murder, occupation, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
* All excerpts from the article, Parallel lives, published in Ha'aretz October 6, 2007.
The heading describes the unfathomable theft of American taxpayer dollars in the Iraq War that this article in Rolling Stone details. You've probably heard scant details of the endemic of fraud, corruption and graft that is occuring there, but the real picture is probably even worse than this article indicates.
Excerpts:
The jury disagreed, finding Custer Battles guilty of ripping off taxpayers. But the verdict was set aside by T.S. Ellis III, a federal judge who cited the administration's "the CPA is not us" argument. The very fact that private contractors, aided by the government itself, could evade conviction for what even Ellis, a Reagan-appointed judge, called "significant" evidence of fraud, says everything you need to know about the true nature of the war we are fighting in Iraq. Is it really possible to bilk American taxpayers for repainted forklifts stolen from Iraqi Airways and claim that you were just following orders? It is, when your commander in chief is George W. Bush.
...
That was how America fought terrorism in Iraq: It hired
civilian air-conditioning techs to fix Humvees using the instruction
manual while the real Humvee repairmen, earning a third of what the
helpless civilians were paid, drove around in circles outside the wire
waiting to get blown up by insurgents.
And here's the money quote:
Sixty years after America liberated Europe, those are just
words, and words don't pay the bills.
Read the whole thing.
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