To: All who've so far commented. Let's see. 1. The post is meaningless because the photo was staged. Whether or not it was staged the image still says something - it offers a different commentary on those who claim to be ultra-moral, meanwhile prostituting their children as images in a propaganda. And it's not the idea of child-prostitutes that bothers me. It is, once again, a demonstration of fundamental hypocrisy. 2. The post is mea
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ps. the previous two comments were from lw.
(perhaps you ought to crate him whenever you get out of the truck?)
poor kitty! glad hes ok.
To: all the prima donnas and divas (other than little-whip and the inarticulate Charles C) currently flouncing on this thread - Stop it. Or I shall spank you.
To: Charles C I'm not very smart but I still write a heck of a lot less than he does. I agree. You're as dumb as a stump. And you do write a lot less than I do. And you use shorter words. That's because you're as dumb as a stump. And your point is?
Hatred is never empty. Trust me, I've blighted lives with it. Of course, it has to be real hate and not the pussyass resentment that substitutes for it nowadays. Real hate can kill.
To: BakerStreet You cringing cur, you stinking filth. Our soldiers sign our bombs. These Israeli children live in fear of Hezbollah, and those Lebanese kids aren't a damn bit more precious than the Iraqi ones we blew up with bombs reading "This one's for you, Saddam" and such. Lebanese and Palestinian kids a
To: stutefish Despite the effort it will cost me to sink to the level of moral ignorance and political incompetence that is involved in speaking to an insect such as yourself, I find myself unable to resist the neccessity of refuting you. However, let me say at the outset that I consider you to be among the vilest of the vile, an espouser of corrupt nonsense, a traitor to the entire history of the moral evolution of the West, an advocate of
To: Texas Wahine As ever, the simple straightforward honesty of your soul shines through. Your husband is a lucky man. I hope he has learned to appreciate what, exactly, has been given to him. I am not a good man - but I can appreciate goodness when I see it. Thank you for your contribution.
To: foreverserenity You have a simplicity and directness of language that I cannot approach and which I am learning to appreciate. Thank you for your comment.
What? Have I written so well that I've left you all speechless?
The effect of hypocrisy, written in the flesh of the residents of Qana village in Lebanon. The current incident is referred to in Lebanon as 'Qana II' - since that village was previously attacked by Israel in an earlier conflict. The words of politicians, and of upstanding moralists such as the whimperi
To: stutefish It wasn't meant as a rebuttal. It was meant as an insult. The fact that you can't tell the difference between an insult and a rebuttal is one marker of the depth of stupidity I'd have to sink to if I were to respond with a rebuttal. And as you probably still can't tell the difference, let me inform you that this reply isn't a rebuttal either. It's another insult.
To: stutefish I'd reply to you, but in order to do so I would need to wear lead shoes in order to sink to the necessary depth of stupidity. And I'm all out of lead shoes.
To: BakerSreet Every time I bark, you jump. And, as here, whimper too. I once wrote a poem in which I described the pleasure I would feel in reading by the light of burning children. Yours, perhaps, if you have any. If I could find it I'd post it here for your edification but it's long gone, lost in one of the episodes requiring us to replace various computers. My problem is not with the morality of war (I intend to make this as simpl
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So that I'm not accused of misinterpretation (deliberate or otherwise) nor of letting my fondness for underdogs run away with me, here is the link to the article in which I found this image of childhood 'innocence' gone awry ( <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/07/20/an_ex
To: Jythier The short answer to your comment is - fiddlesticks and errant nonsense. The American Republic is a political experiment unique in the history of the world. It is not predicated upon the supremacy of the Vox populi but upon the transcendent nature of law as codified in its foundational document, the Constitution. The greatest tragedy in American history is not 9/11 but the gradual forgetting, by the American p
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In a nation such as Iran, indeed even in a nation such as Great Britain, where there is a direct connection between State and Church (the reigning Monarch is equally Head of State as well as Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England) I would be considered a heretic, an apostate, and a rebel. In America I'm simply a legal resident w
To: Texas Wahine Any kind of decision to do something you know another is going to enjoy is invariably 'forced' and likely to backfire. That's just the nature of relationships. It's not just that no good deed often goes unpunished - often the mere decision to do a good deed is enough to invoke the caprice of the gods. A couple of days I go I saw one of those faux trolling-for-ideas-for-an-article type threads: something like 'what's y
To: KFC oh really? Well it says......TO TOVA7 AND KFC. .....so say again...Who is it that needs to pay attention? Yes it does. And if you were capable of bypassing your abominable self-centeredness which works to the exclusion of everything else you might have realised that that particular part of the overall comment was not addressed to you
To: Tova7 Though I am not questioning God's wisdom in such a thing. It is hard to wrap my mind around God ordering children killed for their parents sin. Especially when the NT is all about personal accountability be for the judgment seat. But the OT is not: it's about communal accountab
To: Tova7 Debate, argumentation, discussion - all these things are not about personalities nor about relationships outside the debate. I found your 'tone' a little surprising but took no offence, nor did I intend any. I was once a college-level teacher (the equivalent of what in America is known as an Associate Professor) and the proper structure of an argument is important to me - and I tend to be harsh towards those who (intentionally or not) flout that structure. More so tha