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The UN’s Jan Egeland:
I also clearly see that Hezbollah is trying to blend into the civilian population in too many places and they bear also a heavy responsibility for this.
Meanwhile, the UN itself has been blending in with East Timor’s civilian population, as the Age’s Lindsay Murdoch reports:
United Nations peacekeepers have abandoned at least 20 babies fathered with poverty-stricken Timorese women.
A UN investigation has also uncovered a culture of cover-up, in which babies born to peacekeepers and sex crimes committed by UN staff in the past seven years have been kept secret because of a “fear of shame and embarrassment’ in the deeply religious country.
The findings will shock the UN bureaucracy as it prepares to boost by thousands its peacekeeping force in East Timor.
Whoa! Lock up your womenfolk, East Timor. Kofi Annan’s elite UN pants brigade is on its way!
If the UN bureaucracy can be shocked, it will be a shock to me.
They’re shocked that some of the peacekeepers had a taste for women instead of the local livestock.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 07 23 at 03:33 PM • permalinkPoint 1:UN investigation has also uncovered a culture of cover-up
Point 2:The findings will shock the UN bureaucracyNotice something? Those “internacional foncionaires” (as UN bureaucrats are called)
have contributed to this cover up through their “culture” and are now to be shocked by the revelations they’ve covered up. Duh?Problem is they’ve been covering up many things including terrorism by the Paleos and the islamofascists for decades now and supplying them with money. Funny how short memories are: the UN force was implicated a few years back in helping the Hezzies kinap three Israeli soldiers. And now they want to send these blue ball helmets into the Lebos. Duh.
A UN investigation has also uncovered a culture of cover-up, in which babies born to peacekeepers and sex crimes committed by UN staff in the past seven years have been kept secret because of a “fear of shame and embarrassment’ in the deeply religious country.
Notice it dosent say anything about fear of retribution, imprisonment or fine?
Fear of shame and embarrassment, among other things, is always the reason for a cover-up of shameful and embarrassing acts, especially if those acts are also criminal.
Spot the difference!
US soldiers commit rare crimes. Their own services charge, investigate and punish accordingly. The media talks of nothing else.
UN “Peacekeepers” commit crimes and the entire international set in charge of them is only afraid of (their own) shame and embarrasment. No word on the perps. The media continues non-stop coverage of the rare crimes committed by US soldiers.
Mom used to say “life is not fair” in response to one of us saying “it’s not fair.” I’d have to say she nailed that one.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 07 23 at 04:42 PM • permalinkThe findings will shock the UN bureaucracy
Why? Because there weren’t lots more (as is usually the case)? :-(
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 07 23 at 04:43 PM • permalinkIt is the same story everywhere the UN goes. No matter the initial cause, the “protectors” from the UN bring corruption, misery, and death with them. And we pay for it. We sanction it everytime we vote to pass another worthless resolution. Worthless except to those who exploit the opportunity for undreampt-of graft. The individual sleeze who rapes the girls and sells the use of little boys needs to be taken out and shot. Those who sent him there deserve much more. Their crime is multiplied with every individual instance of criminality. They know the evil they unleash under the rubric of “protector”.
How much longer will we remain complicit. What possible reason could be given that would justify continued support of that which we know to be evil. How much more theft, rape, murder, graft, and extortion, are we going to countenance so that folks can feel good about lending a helping hand to those in need.
If our purpose is to help those who are suffering, shouldn’t we be careful that it is help that is sent? If it isn’t, but we have sent more evil into the lives of the suffering, what then? You can’t say that you have helped someone just because you fed them on the first day, if on the second day you rape them.
It is past time to demand an end to our participation in that evil institution. Nothing they have done that might be classified as a positive good could justify the incredible corruption it has allowed to occur on a global scale. It is past time to admit that the idea behind the League of Nations and the United Nations is invalid and harmful to human life on this earth.
Rafe
I remember reading that article about a month ago in (you guessed it) a doctors waiting room. Ill see if i can come up with the issue number next time Im in.
Was quite well written .Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 07 23 at 08:31 PM • permalinkFound the UN piece, makes good reading. Only found part 1 and another piece. Hmmm only 10 years later and what has changed??
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/moral2/un.htm
http://www.freedomdomain.com/un/uncontrol.html
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 07 23 at 08:36 PM • permalinkIn the opening days of the ADF in ETimor (Sep 99) it was reported by John Hunter Farrell in Defender Mag that the UN killed more IDPs than the militia.
I have since had occasion to speak to John and he stands rock solid by this assertion which he published in ANZD magazine. Apparently in panic mode the UNsters would drive their shiny Landcruisers straight through milling crowds running down dozens of people.
They were never ever brought to account for it by the MSN or anyone else.Clearly the reason for these regrettable incidents is insufficient funding the UN receives from its member states. We can all relax, though, as they are working on a solution to that.
One must always look at the bright side - at least this time around they
left the paedophiles at home.One of East Timor’s greatest insults is to call someone a “Pakistani”
In a side anecdote: The Pakistani commanding officer in East Timor had dinner with the Australian commander in country, and during dinner asked him “How do YOU stop your men sleeping together?”
Rather left the Ozzi C.O. without anything to say, other than a weak.. “.... er.. that isn’t a problem in our Army….”
Posted by Steve at the pub on 2006 07 23 at 09:13 PM • permalinkThe biggest problem with the UN is that it allows non-democracies, even dictatorships a seat at the table, and a vote in what happens around the world. It gives unelected thugs a say that is equal to the elected representatives of democracies. Look at the composition of the security council, probably the most powerful subgroup of the UN.
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 07 23 at 09:25 PM • permalinkCarl H
Im pinching that one..
the joke I mean not his buddies..erm you get the idea.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 07 23 at 09:27 PM • permalink#8 Saltydog
“How much longer will we remain complicit. What possible reason could be given that would justify continued support of that which we know to be evil.”
Complicity in murder? There’s alot of it about.
“The very idea that terrorists who use women and children as suicide bombers against other women and children shed crocodile tears over the deaths of civilians they deliberately put in harm’s way gives new meaning to the word “hypocrisy.” We all know that hypocrisy is a tactic of the terrorists, but it is shocking that others fall for it and become complicit with the terrorists.
Let the blame fall where it belongs: on the terrorists who deliberately seek to kill enemy civilians and give their democratic enemies little choice but to kill some civilians behind whom the terrorists are hiding.”
Alan Dershowitz in the Jerusalem Post[via HonestReporting.com]
On a side note, could we please not perpetuate the bizarre practice progressives have of using made up words like “truthiness”? The correct word is truthfulness, and it works quite well.
Everytime we engage in the slow destruction of the English language, Baby Jesus may not cry, but I do.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 23 at 09:47 PM • permalinkO/T brilliant article by Paul Sheehan today on the hypocricy of feminists, and their silence on the oppression of Muslim women.
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 07 23 at 09:55 PM • permalinkA passing moment for Engeland, this is what he really thinks
“It’s terrible. I see a lot of children wounded, homeless, suffering. This is a war where civilians pay a disproportionate price in Lebanon and northern Israel.
“I hadn’t believed it would be block by block levelled to the ground,” he said. “A disproportionate response by Israel is a violation of international humanitarian law.”When he is not threatening Israel he is supposed to be doing something about the evil in Darfur. Engeland criticising the Sudanese government.
“And the government of Sudan must work with the AU force to improve security to protect civilians and humanitarians. All the parties in Darfur must exert control over the militias to ensure they stop attacking defenseless civilians.”
He also said
25th May, 2006 Engeland, With even more violence and attacks, our humanitarian operations would be unsustainable and we would have to withdraw our relief workers. People would begin to starve within weeks, not months.
Well guess what Mr Engeland,
22 July, 2006 GENEVA: International aid operations in refugee camps in the Zalinge area of Sudan’s Darfur region have been suspended after three water workers were killed by a mob, the UN’s refugee agency said yesterday.
Any chance he will get over the fact that the refugees in Darfur attacked him because of the shit help they were getting from the UN, causing Engeland to do a Fisk from Darfur, and concern himself with his belief that thousands will starve if aid stops. And bring himself to condemn an ARAB mob as violating international humanitarian law.”
Not likely too many brownie points in abusing the Jews of Israel.
The hypocrisy of these UN megalomaniacs
Neil Mitchell, on 3AW radio this morning, reported the UN’s statement condemning Israel’s disproportinate use of force. Neil then promoted the UN as supposedly unbiased and impartial.
Mmmhmm.. sure.. the UN spends half its time bashing Israel, and Kofi is photographed hanging with Nasrallah, but he can be trusted ?
http://doublethinkblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/un-finds-common-cause-with-terrorists.html
#31 Dont cry Andrea, just punch them in the mouth.
What does fake but accurate mean anyway? Does it mean its ok to set your pants ablaze with untruths, as long as you are trying to get rid of Bush/bring about the revolution?
Exitus Acta Probat.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 07 23 at 10:21 PM • permalinkAnother mealy mouthed hypocrite, UK Foreign Office minister Kim Howells
Guardian reporting Howells on Israel’s response.
“The destruction of the infrastructure, the death of so many children and so many people - these have not been surgical strikes. It is very, very difficult to understand the kind of military tactics that have been used. If they’re chasing Hezbollah, then go for Hezbollah. You don’t go for the entire Lebanese nation.” The minister added: “I very much hope that the Americans understand what’s happening to Lebanon.”
Howell appalled and angered by the ARAB government of Sudan
“In the Darfur region of Sudan, where amidst a tragic tangle of deadly conflicts Muslims are fighting Muslims, we are giving our full support to the African Union and other international efforts to resolve this conflict in which so many innocent people have lost their lives and which is debilitating the country.”
The Guardian today on Howell
It’s safe to assume that the change of tone in Howell’s language yesterday - “we have to take sides [Israel’s] ... we can’t let terrorism win” - was the result of being very heavily sat on by No 10,
The Guardian reporting on the Foreign Office
“Foreign Office diplomats confirmed over the weekend there were significant differences between No 10 and the Foreign Office, and within the Foreign Office about how to respond to the conflict.’
And today
“The Foreign Office has always had an Arabist tilt. For its mandarins, the whole post-Iraq war situation has been a desert of regret and lost influence.”Sir Humphrey reporting on the Foreign Office, in Arab dress
Sir Humphrey: “The Foreign Office takes the view that as the Arab nations are a very sensitive people that we should show them who’s side we’re on.”
Jim Hacker: “Well it may come as a surprise to the Foreign Office, but you are supposed to be on our side.”OT, two religions move closer towards a merger:
Flying on holiday ‘a sin’, says bishop
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 07 23 at 10:48 PM • permalinkArt — And it’s a sin against nature, says that venerable Christian and regular visitor to Russia.
Guess it’s a case of “render unto Gaia the things that are Gaia’s and the things that are… um, hold it…”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 23 at 10:56 PM • permalinkThe bishop would seem to be of the Church of England, which is contemplating dumping St. George as England’s patron saint because he irritates Muslims. In other words, they’re about as Christian these days as the post office. I rather doubt that the idea of holiday travel (such as… to grandma’s house on Christmas Day, or indeed, to church on same) will ever be proclaimed a sin by any normal Christian denomination.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 23 at 11:25 PM • permalinkListening to Professor Steinberg Israel on BBC about the scene of Egeland where he pronounces
“It’s destruction in block after block - mainly residential areas. I would say that this seems to be an excessive use of force in an area with so many civilians.”
He is standing on the huge underground concrete bunkers in Beirut which are or were Hizbollah’s command centre.
He didn’t Know? Or he was deliberately misleading?
Lebanese government didn’t notice them being built?His is not the only voice from the UN fortunately. Terge Larsen special envoy UN to Lebanon, says unequivocally Hizbollah started it, that Lebanon has ignored repeated request to deploy Lebanese army and disarm Hizbollah and all militant groups, and if they had done so, then this would not be happening. He also says that there cannot be a return to the status quo, Hizbollah has to be disarmed and the Lebanese Army deployed as part of any solution or it will happen again and again. And he says, Annan’s view as well. He also reiterated that Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000 and the Security Council confirmed their complete withdrawal. At the same time Lebanon PROMISED to disarm Hizbollah and deploy its army. Maybe the politics is going very much against Hizbollah, despite Egeland and various western journalists best efforts.
Egeland should be saving lives in Darfur, or is Egeland and saving lives an oxymoron.
Egeland was also the jackass who immediately ran to the nearest microphone to comment on the US response to the Indian Ocean tsunami. According to him it wasn’t as sufficiently generous as the billions the UN sent along with UN naval units, helicopters and relief units. Oh wait, that was US (and Oz) billions, naval units, helicopters and relief units. Ironically at a time when both countries had significant forces off enforcing UN resolutions in Iraq, resolutions Mr. Egelund’s sick corrupt outfit did not have the stones to enforce, because it was too busy screwing the Iraqi people out of its oil wealth. And the revelation that the UN treats the commitments it does choose to honor like a goddamn international frat party complete with pubescent sex slaves doesn’t really help their human rights street cred either. So the fact that Egelund manages to get the characterization of Hezbollah partially right is small beer in my admittedly partisan book.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 07 24 at 12:08 AM • permalinkOT: I wonder if Tim’s in jail yet and/or has seen all assets confiscated. After all, that deadly deadline by Nick Deadly…err, Dyrenfurth expired a few hours ago.
(Assuming he meant this Monday…I hope he sent a clarification email, though I suspect he probably managed to misspell Tim’s email address if he did.)
Since Hizbollah deliberately hides its people, equipment, and munitions among civilians any Israel counterattack to Hizbollah’s acts of war will hurt civilians. That is what Hizbollah intended. Are the UNniks too stupid to realize this, too anti-Israel to admit it, or too cowed to call anyone’s attention to this practice?
It is possible that Israelis have got to the point where they no longer care. Their civilians have borne the brunt of terrorism so long, with no denunciation of the terrorists by the international community and to the cheers of the Arabs, This has always been one of the dangers of the Arab and Muslim recourse to terrorism, now over eight decades old. Others will see that the terrorists and their backers pay no price for their evil and decide that they no longer care to distinguish between terrorists and their supporters. Furthermore, the continued use of terrorism, which is actually a war crime, desensitizes the world to it. Such continued use gradually makes the practice seem usual, so that it becomes an accepted part of the customs of warfare.
This happened with the aerial bombing of civilians during WWII. By the time the Axis powers had finished gassing Ethiopians from the air, terror bombing Spanish Republicans, Poles, Dutch, British and Chinese over a period of several years, they could hardly expect to have any standing to complain when the Allies followed their lead. All they could complain about was that the Allies did it to them more effectively than they had done to others. Payback is a bitch.
If Muslims don’t get busy and help us put down the terrorist groups and end the practice then payback will come to them. They won’t like it, any more than the Germans and Japanese liked it. By then it will be too damn late to stuff the genie back in the bottle.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 07 24 at 12:11 AM • permalink#31, #34 - Truthiness was added to the Lexicon of Mockery by Stephen Colbert. A devout leftly, he intended it as a sneer at President Bush, but it’s rebounded with delightful irony on the fake-but-accurate/ myth-that-mistakes-a-reality end of the political spectrum.
I vaguely remember accusing my first feel-up victim of “falsiness”...
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 24 at 01:06 AM • permalinkWhile there is very little that is good to come out of any war one thing that has come out of the current increase in conflict in the middle east is the wide awareness of many ordinary people that 1. Hezbollah and Hamas are probably egotistical lunatics and 2. That they do hide behind civilians deliberately seeking them harm and thus publicity 3. That Iran and Syria are ruthless regimes who back this insanity for their own evil ends and 4. That there are many Lebanese who are Australian passport holders but live permanently in Lebanon.
These facts may have been known well by the readers of and contributors to this blog but it is now in the public domain fully. What this will mean in the future for the cause of terrorists is conjecture but in Australia at least it will probably mean endorsement of our role in the “war against terror” at the ballot box.
#47 - Excellent points. Thanks you.
#51 - A classic. Thanks for the laugh.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 07 24 at 03:27 AM • permalink#21 81 Alpha
All the soldiers I have ever worked with who have been deployed where the UN are, absolutely hate their guts. I’ve heard the first thing they do is build their own accommodation and then drive about the place in shiny new cars while our boys do all the work.
In Rwanda they stood by as children were slaughtered and mutilated before their eyes.
It commits atrocities itself (rape, usually) and for some goddamned reason people don’t want to hear about it. It is beyong me why the UN is so frigging beyond criticism—why it is holier than thou, and why perfectly normal people keep supporting its crimes.
Slightly OT - check outthis proposition by Jack Marx -
Lets Move Israel to Tasmania - just a thoughtIf a kid at school fought with the other kids every day of his life, he’d be expelled…I say it’s time to move Israel along, to a place far out of harm’s way. Anyone who thinks that idea “anti-Semitic” should consult their encyclopedia for the differences between Judaism and Israel, politics and religion, geography and biology.
I think you all get the drift of where this is all going. quite predictably the blog attracted certain comments which the ever so sensitive Fairfax published. Take this comment by harry_togo -
Israel and its people should be repatriated to Khazar which is where they orginated from. They are not Judeans and they were not part of the semites who lived there.
Jesus was not one of them as spoken in John 8:44
You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.
Christianity owes nothing to Jewry or Israel. Our bible nor its Old Testament foundation takes nothing from the religion of jewry as written in the Talmud.No Khazar is where they (Jews) should be and is what Hitler had planned for this race all along. How anyone can really believe Hitler wanted eastern Russia for Germany, how he moved jewry thousands of miles just to murder them needs to reflect. There was a simple reason why the camps were in the east…to reestablish Khazar and resettle them there.or this little gem from SMH reader Gordon Drennan -
Legend claims Jews occupied the whole area including Jordan, Egypt and Iraq over 5000 years ago. Its utter nonsense…when the peice of fiction that Christians call the Old Testament and Jews claim is a historical record of a mighty and heroic past that gives them the right to Palestine was invented in Judea…Yes, Jews came from there, but this united Kingdom of Israel under Solomon and David that Zionist claim gives them their historical right to go back dispossess the Palestinians never existed in biblical times. Its a myth Legend. And if you don’t believe me watch SBS on Sunday nights at 7:30. They’re in the middle of a FACTUAL 4-part series on myths like the Exodus and Moses.
Ah, the old Jews=Khazars conspiracy theory. Haven’t seen that one for a while.
It’s a good indicator the person in question is
1) Muslim Bigot
2) Plain old Anti-Semite
3) Idiot
4) All of the AboveMind you, it’s taught in schools run by the PLO, which tells you all you need to know about the education Palestinian children are getting.
Posted by Quentin George on 2006 07 24 at 07:39 AM • permalinkEgeland has quite a reputation now for crap comments.
He might have been playing to a gallery, but to suggest that there is some particular law relating to the situation is fatuous in the extreme.
Does it also relate to ball bearings in explosive missile warheads directed imprecisely into Israeli civilian areas? Does intent matter?“Since 2003… Kazakhstan is as civilized as any other country in the world. Women can now travel on inside of bus, homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hat, and age of consent has been raised to 8 years old.”
I’ve often wondered where Borat got his ideas.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2006 07 24 at 08:08 AM • permalinkTo be fair to Kofi, I think he has once again expressed grave concern
Waiting for new babbling troll suzieq to turn up in 5.4.3.2.1.?
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 07 24 at 09:13 AM • permalinktassie’s too cold. WA would be better as the new israel - simultaneously make perth more cosmopolitan & therefore worth visiting, plus raise the average IQ at least 20 points
isn’t that egeland a complete tit? you welcome a nest of vipers into your sweet little lebanese village/high rise apartment block, you suffer the consequences
so what does the UN have to do before the US can legitimately withdraw from it?
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 07 24 at 12:31 PM • permalink#65Does anyone know which countries provided the randy blue helmets? Somehow, I don’t think these guys are from the ranks of an elite military unit.
When I was company commander many eons ago in the US Army, whenever anyone asked me to choose personnel to take part in someone elses project, I always sent the ones I wanted to get rid of, the sad sacks that made life miserable for everyone else. That was a long time ago, but I believe the practice endures.67 stats, I did that when I worked for the phone company aeons ago.
Either transfer or promote out those who didn’t work with the team and reduced productivity.
In my defence, I always made sure that the ones so moved out wanted to go, and used to follow up to ensure they were happy.
I know the team was.
OF course, courtesy of my habit of buying lollies and chocolates for everyone, after a while nobody wanted to leave.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 07 24 at 06:24 PM • permalinkAmazingly, the midnight news on one of the smaller TV channels here actually ran a feature on the troubles faced by the people in Israeli towns and hospitals tonight. Admittedly, the overall reporting had been fairly balanced here so far (with a few notable exceptions from the usual suspects), but until now the “human angle” had come pretty much exclusively from the Lebanon side.
“...one of the smaller TV channels here actually ran a feature on the troubles faced by the people in Israeli towns and hospitals tonight. “
Meanwhile, in other news, world clothing manufacturers are reporting unprecedented orders for parkas and other Arctic winter gear around the world. All of the orders are being shipped in a logistical effort unheard of since World War II, for a single destination identified only by the code name “Hell”.....
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<http://www.endtime.com/.Posted by Harry Eagar on 2006 07 24 at 11:43 PM • permalinkSince you provide no personal comment in the post at #71, I will refrain from ridicule.
I will, however, reiterate the Business Case I submitted some time ago to PACO Enterprises (Property Division)—detailing the significant financial advantage of purchasing land on the hills above the Valley of Esdralon.
PACO Industries (Engineering Division) can then construct hardened luxury bunkers, with all mod. cons., to be built on both the northern and southern slopes of the hills overlooking the valley (to afford stunning views no matter which “side” you’re rooting for).
No reasonable offer refused! Christian, Moslem or Zoroastrian! Roll up!
There’s big money to be made in the End of the World!
(wronwright made a packet on the last go round, and all he had to do was move a lake!)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 25 at 12:04 AM • permalinkYes, the Plain of Esdralon, folks!
You too can see where Gideon gained his great victory over the Midianites, where Barak defeated Sisera, where the army of Saul was defeated by the Philistines, where King Josiah—while fighting in disguise against Necho King of Egypt—was slain.
This plain has been well called the battle field of the world. The chosen place for encampment in every contest carried on in this country from the days of King Nebuchadnezzar of the Chaldeans—in the history of whose wars with Arphaxad it is mentioned by name—right through to the disastrous march of Napoleon Bonaparte from Egypt into Syria!
Jews—Gentiles—Saracens—Crusaders—Frenchmen—Egyptians—Persians—Druse—Turks—Arabs; warriors out of every nation which is under heaven have pitched their tents in the plain and have beheld the various banners of their nations wet with the dews of Tabor and Hermon!
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Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 25 at 12:46 AM • permalink(well, saltydog, I guess we can now be reasonably sure it wasn’t Playboy)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 25 at 12:48 AM • permalinkI thought it was self-evidently nuts, Mental.
There, happy now?
I just thought that it would be nice if someone, amidst all this Muslim-bashing, would put in a bad word for the Christians. They’ve earned it.
Posted by Harry Eagar on 2006 07 25 at 02:45 AM • permalinkOK, salty.
Quaker farmer goes to milk his best cow. She’s been out in the paddock, udders all scratched up from brambles & thorns & what all.
Anyway, he gets his stool and bucket and sets to milking. “Steady, Bossie”, says he.
Just about the time the bucket is brimmin’ over with milk, the cow kicks bucket, farmer and stool ace over apex.
Quaker gets up, dusts the straw and milk and what all off himself and tries again. Full bucket; cow kicks bucket, stool and farmer halfway accros across the barn.
Quaker sighs, goes round the front and says: “Nay, Bossie, I cannot strike thee—but on the morrow I shall sell thee to the Baptist, and he will beat the living hell out of thee!
[courtesy: me Dad, G-d rest his soul]
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 25 at 03:11 AM • permalinkMental Floss,
I know it wasn’t Playboy (though there was a cartoon in one issue that stayed with me for years—can’t remember it now to save me). I think it was the New Yorker. Thanks for the laugh. I needed it after reading Mr. Eagar’s gratuitous swipe at Christians. I’m sorry, but equating a bunch of nuts who think the world is coming to an end, who then sit and pray about it, with a bunch of nuts who think the world is coming to an end, who then go out and rape, torture, and murder in order to take as many with them as possible, is just beyond the pale. Then Mr. Eagars adds insult to injury by claiming that they deserve the derision. Perhaps. But of a wholey different kind than the ROP. The two groups ought not be spoken of in the same breath. In the interest of justice, and all that.I am often amazed at how even normally rational people have absorbed the vocabulary and methods of non-intellectualism of the Multicults. Can’t be talkin’ trash about the Muslims, you know, without balancing it out with talkin’ trash about the Christians, the Jews, the Sikhs, the Budhists, etc. Oh, and don’t forget the Shintos. Man, a lot of evil done by the followers of Shinto. Tsk tsk.
Update, Koffing Anus sends has Blix back in to korea!!
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 07 25 at 05:12 AM • permalinkOf course United Nations “peacekeepers” are going to start fathering children (or at least sticking loose ends in convenient holes)
I mean to say, they have got nothing else to do.
Because basically they do nothing, especially on the Israel/ Lebanon border.
Sit there and watch. Lend a vehicle to Hezbollah to capture an Israel soldier. Video tape it and keep the tape from israel.Sounds like they need a diversion so why not screw the locals.
After all, they seem to have screwed Israel.
And Israel is not the only country they have screwed either, with their gutlessness.As for Eager, it’s obvious as to what he’s eager for. When trying to summarise the mindset of such persons,I think that Lileks said it best:
“Christian abortion clinic bombers outnumber jihadis, and the war on “terror” is a distraction from the real threats: carbon emissions and Pat Robertson.”
Since the UN is far more enlightened than those idiot Christians, especially those backward Papists, you’d think that contraception and other remedies would occur to them. Tis a pity that they don’t practice what they preach, eh?
As for bashing, shall we discuss Mugabe in Zimbabwe bulldozing an AIDS clinic run by the Catholic Church, as well as a mosque?
Please compare and contrast these incidents, and the ensuing media outcry to that resulting from Coalition operations in Iraq which resulted in damage to mosques. For extra credit, you can discuss the discovery of a rocket cache in a mosque in southern Lebanon.
Who drove the Jews out of Europe? Not Muslims, I think.
Posted by Harry Eagar on 2006 07 25 at 12:22 PM • permalink“Who drove the Jews out of Europe?”
Sorry to hear that instead of focusing on the assignement, you decided instead to dodge.
Okey fine, we’ll play here.
“Who drove the Jews out of Europe?”1. That’s a rather sad generalization, since not all Jews have been driven from Europe.
2. The two greatest threats to Jews in Europe in the last century were National Socialism and Communism. Neither were based upon Christianity. Both were actually diametrically opposed to Christianity.
3. Some elements that were arguably Christian did show some support for some of the first actions taken by National Socialism (regions in Bavaria)but none could be construed as having official support.
4. Europe since World War II is regarded as being ‘post-Christian’ in nature. Therefore, anti-semitism found today in Europe is not logically the result of Christianity.Now try focusing on the task at hand, instead of casting about for a diversion. Please consider the assignment. Since you fancy yourself to be an expert on matters European, please present to the class a brief synopsis of the rise in anti-semitism in France, and examine whether this is or is not related to the changes in the immigrant communities in France who identify themselves as being Muslims..
Hey Harry. General situational awarness test.
Question #1.
Who wants to kill YOU right now?
Question #2.
Whos leadership publicly states that everyone that isnt them should be dead or enslaved RIGHT NOW?
Question #3.
Who is it that purposfully hides behind civilians in order to facilitate their killing of civilians in direct contravention of every rule of war and then claims protection under those rules of war?
Question #4.
What do you call those that speak up or act out to defend those who commit the actions listed in #3?Who drove the Jews out of the Muslim world, although the Jews there had very little to do with the political Zionism that gave rise to Israel, which mainly was an ideology of Europeans? Sixty percent of Israel’s Jews are such refugees or their descendents. Their communities dated back more than a millenium before Muhammed climbed that mountain and saw an Archangel filling the world.
Who has been saying “Next year in Jerusalem” for 2000 years? Hint, it’s not the Muslims.
Denial of the Jewish roots of Christianity is actually a recurring heresy going back to Roman times. It originated among some of the Gnostics I think. The last bunch to adopt it were the “Germanic Christians” who tried to adapt a bastardized form of Protestantism to Nazi ideology. The Nazis themselves preferred paganism or atheism. To rise to high rank in the SS, for example, a man had to renounce his religion.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 07 25 at 11:43 PM • permalink
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Un-pants is right! Jeez, those blue hats must be like Smurfs—like they only ever saw one female in their entire lives before going on their “mission.”