tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post6287484443416240668..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.498-05:00Comments on Althouse: "This is a fight between extremism and moderate Islam."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger259125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44474585500713278382013-05-27T23:21:33.856-05:002013-05-27T23:21:33.856-05:00I guess making up quotes is easier than thinking f...<i>I guess making up quotes is easier than thinking for yourself.</i><br /><br />This doesn't even make sense. After misattributing my own thoughts, you finally asked for them, I gave them, and you ignored them so that you could again cast aspersions and fixate on punctuation (again). <br /><br />I know my thoughts. <br /><br />Since you don't know yours, however (and can't explain them), you simply fixate on ways to distract from that fact - i.e. obsessing on grammar, the last lost battle of loser internet "warriors" everywhere.<br /><br />Also noted: You don't win these things by longevity. The thread ended yesterday. Sticking around to wallow in emoticon equivalents and fixate on punctuation just proves that you have nothing defensible to say. So you pick at gnats. Typical. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-10069915868513437352013-05-27T23:06:09.608-05:002013-05-27T23:06:09.608-05:00When Drago makes up thoughts to misattribute to ot...When Drago makes up thoughts to misattribute to others, he never, EVER uses quotation marks. He just flatly asserts them. That's what makes him honorable.<br /><br />LOLBleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83685571600681861502013-05-27T23:04:37.856-05:002013-05-27T23:04:37.856-05:00Notice how Drake can't even discuss any of the...Notice how Drake can't even discuss any of the actual issues involved (even those which he himself raised). He just devolves into a constant barrage of "LOL", fixates on his disagreement over punctuation that he didn't like from over a day before and throws out political insults. That's all.<br /><br />He also has apparently nothing more to say on his disdain for Adam Smith for supposedly being more of a "lefty" than John Locke.<br /><br />Yup. That's Drago. Nothing intelligent to say. No point to make. No nothing. Not even worth trying to speculate as to how he might fill in the many blanks that exist in his mind and in his thoughts. He likes those blank spaces the way they are!<br /><br />LOLBleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-10871943749930076862013-05-27T22:56:05.812-05:002013-05-27T22:56:05.812-05:00Dragon, how often do you usually have to repeat yo...Dragon, how often do you usually have to repeat your own lies before you start believing them... generally speaking?<br /><br />LOLBleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59711148693576056422013-05-27T22:54:36.656-05:002013-05-27T22:54:36.656-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-36786100822666591572013-05-27T21:27:34.210-05:002013-05-27T21:27:34.210-05:00I guess making up quotes is easier than thinking f...I guess making up quotes is easier than thinking for yourself.<br /><br />Which is why, of course, alpha (fellatio comparator) makes a perfect lefty.<br /><br />Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079148433908004715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67720019457748676152013-05-27T21:25:07.013-05:002013-05-27T21:25:07.013-05:00alpha (fellatio comparator) sure takes the long pa...alpha (fellatio comparator) sure takes the long path to avoid the reality that when you use quotes and attribute them to someone else then you are simply making up quotes.<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />"honest debate"!<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079148433908004715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-88852622457488740642013-05-27T18:33:35.662-05:002013-05-27T18:33:35.662-05:00You know, since an explanation is an honor too gen...You know, since an explanation is an honor too genuine for you, I'll just provide an example, with more quotation marks added around them just to piss your little girl self off.<br /><br />See, Dear Reader, it's like Drago's saying:<br /><br />"I don't know how someone could interpret my incomplete thoughts without my guidance, direction and approval! It's like they're trying to take the nonsense I believe to it's logical conclusion! <i>Soooo</i> unfair!"<br /><br />Now, the astute reader will see that I preceded this statement with the word, "like", (Uh oh, did I misquote someone just there?), which means that it's not what so-and-so said -- (in this case, the so-and-so is the asshole Draco) -- but a summary of what anyone could interpret of his meaning. The same way similes work in grade school. Not my thoughts (hence, the quotation marks), but what anyone with a brain might conclude if they were, unfortunately, in Drac's mind and had the misfortune of trying to think his own thoughts through for him. <br /><br />But, you see, Draco objects to others interpreting his words because, he himself, is incapable of understanding the implications of his own ideas. <br /><br />So, cry he must. Waaaaahhhh!<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />LOLBleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20480966606666925932013-05-27T18:22:52.659-05:002013-05-27T18:22:52.659-05:00alpha: "Do we fellate each other as you and R...<i>alpha: "Do we fellate each other as you and Rusty do?"<br /><br />The way you choose to fellate someone really is your business, not mine.</i><br /><br />It is when it's you and Rusty doing the fellating.<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />No one misattributed a quote to you, Sir Numbnuts. Here's a hint: When a statement is preceded by: "Shorter (fill in the name of blank asshole here)", they're summarizing the conclusion that you tried to avoid accepting, or even addressing. <br /><br />They're sparing the reader the expense of presuming to make sense of the main (missed) point that anyone with a brain can summarize in your drivel. <br /><br />LOL<br /><br />These aren't direct quotes, and anyone with a brain knows that. They're suggested restatements of your conclusion, surrounded in quotation marks to emphasize the thoughts you missed (and the fact that they're not my own thoughts) - in all their ridiculousness. This is common practice on the internets, but you're too enchanted with cell phone technology acronyms to know that. <br /><br />As I said, debate, or any reasoned discourse, is a foreign concept to a barbaric Taliban-wanna-be like you. So just fixate, like the little girl you are, on trivial distractions that don't provide anything other the chance for you to rearrange your messy hair-do in peace.<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />LOLBleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-39310511712223743002013-05-27T17:29:15.605-05:002013-05-27T17:29:15.605-05:00The comments in this story are one of the worse ex...The comments in this story are one of the worse examples of thread hijacking I've ever seen. What a bunch of fucking morons.Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12520900676193170036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49425085400666945592013-05-27T17:25:20.382-05:002013-05-27T17:25:20.382-05:00Bullshit. There is no such thing as "modern&...Bullshit. There is no such thing as "modern" or "moderate" Islam. Until we can face that and say it out loud, there is no chance to drag these neanderthals into the present.Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12520900676193170036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-89325826403339865692013-05-27T15:24:59.802-05:002013-05-27T15:24:59.802-05:00alpha: "Do we fellate each other as you and R...alpha: "Do we fellate each other as you and Rusty do?"<br /><br />The way you choose to fellate someone really is your business, not mine.<br /><br />I do find it interesting the things you let slip when you are in a frenzy.<br /><br />NTTATWWT<br /><br />LOLDragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079148433908004715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83707669268683572972013-05-27T15:23:18.412-05:002013-05-27T15:23:18.412-05:00I can't wait to see what new quotes alpha will...I can't wait to see what new quotes alpha will create and assign to me.<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />Remember though, alpha is all about "honest debate"!<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />Sort of like how Obama is all about transparency in government and not criminalizing standard journalistic activities!<br /><br />LOLDragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079148433908004715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-36637381177746381592013-05-27T14:42:42.273-05:002013-05-27T14:42:42.273-05:00Do you believe gitmo should be closed?
Don't ...<i>Do you believe gitmo should be closed?</i><br /><br />Don't have a set opinion on it.<br /><br /><i>Do you believe that American conservatives are the equivalent of the Taliban?</i><br /><br />You are confusing "equivalent" with equal. As I said, they are both the conservative/impeding elements of their own societies, and one just impedes its own back to a worse starting point than the other. But that doesn't mean that American conservatives aren't pretty destructive to their own country right now. They're just being a little less destructive to a country that is stronger, better and has already (thankfully) made more progress - which you hate. That helps mute their destruction despite the fact that they are being destructive. Still equivalent roles, if in different settings. So like the difference between an accountant in the mafia or Nazi Germany and an accountant in the IRS, your difference to the Taliban is one of degree, much less so than kind. <br /><br /><i>You and Galloway are peas in a pod.</i><br /><br />Do we fellate each other as you and Rusty do?<br /><br /><i>You just choose to emphasize different items on the left's agenda.</i><br /><br />I emphasize what I find to be important. <br /><br />This must come as a shock to someone like you, who gets his ideological marching orders and talking points spoon-fed to him. <br /><br /><i>You may not like the pod you're in or who all of your pod-mates are.</i><br /><br />The collectivist in you speaks!<br /><br /><i>But that's your problem.</i><br /><br />More projection from American Taliban. <br /><br /><i>You are nothing new.</i><br /><br />Oh and your own creativity is stunning! <br /><br />Didn't realize I was supposed to compete for whatever ideological novelty you convinced yourself that you excel at. But then, you say that John Locke is a better (and apparently more conservative) economist than Adam Smith, so you certainly have that bit of incoherent nonsense going for you. Being nonsensically incoherent is probably the surest route to a new idea that's open to someone like you. Stupid, but definitely new.Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-39318954805931431082013-05-27T14:27:12.910-05:002013-05-27T14:27:12.910-05:00I was using the blog to essentially "step awa...<i>I was using the blog to essentially "step away" and clear my head.</i><br /><br />Oh your head was already pretty empty by the time you got here.<br /><br />Are you going to fellate Rusty in return or is the favor he paid you a one-way thing? Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-764623568261789922013-05-27T12:40:16.770-05:002013-05-27T12:40:16.770-05:00Bender said: As for the problem of Islam being too...Bender said: <i>As for the problem of Islam being too literalist and fundamental, just exactly how would they benefit from a "Reformation" when the Protestant Reformation was largely about adopting a more literalist and fundamental approach?</i><br /><br />Excellent point. In fact there is a strong parallel betweeb Wahhabi Islam and Calvinist Christianity. Both take offense at religious ritualism and iconography.<br /><br />English Puritans and French Huguenots vandalized or destroyed relics and icons during the "wars of religion". Much of England's medieval stained glass was smashed by Cromwell's troops.<br /><br />In the last century, Wahhabi Moslems have destroyed the relics and tombs of Moslem "saints", including Companions of the Prophet. Saudi money has paid for construction or rehab of mosques, but only if there is no ornamentation - in some cases forcing the removal of beautiful medieval stonework, inlays, and tiling.<br /><br />The Reformation was about moral and theological corruption in the institutional Church, not freedom of conscience. It led there, but only because it created competing forms which had to learn tolerance.<br /><br />What Islam needs is an Enlightenment. That's if one can say that "Islam" is an entity. The Reformation only affected Western, Roman Catholic Christians; it had no effect on Eastern Christians.Rich Rostromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13262703348236110420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38524677072413653072013-05-27T11:55:23.465-05:002013-05-27T11:55:23.465-05:00So Christians burned the Library of Alexandria? As...So Christians burned the Library of Alexandria? As I recall it, it went more like:<br /><br /><i>Early in the year A. D. 642, Alexandria surrendered to Amrou, the Islamic general leading the armies of Omar, Caliph of Baghdad. Long one of the most important cities of the ancient world and capital of Byzantine Egypt, Alexandria surrendered only after a long siege and attempts to rescue the city by the Byzantines. On the orders of Omar, Caliph of Baghdad, the entire collection of books (except for the works of Aristotle) stored at the Library of Alexandria were removed and used as fuel to heat water for the city's public baths.</i><br /><br />Perhaps there is some confusion because:<br /><br /><i>This is not the first time the library was damaged or destroyed. Originally built to house the massive collection of books accumulated by the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt, the library had been devastated by fire several times. During Julius Caesar's Alexandrian campaign in 47 B. C., Caesar set fire to ships in the port. The fire spread to the library, which was called the Museum at that time.<br /> <br />In A. D. 391, riots instigated by fanatical Christians damaged the collection heavily. During the years between disastrous events, the library collection had been gradually restored. In 641, the Caliph of Baghdad exhibited the same spirit of religious fanaticism in ordering Amrou to burn the books stored there. The loss of the library at Alexandria was a particularly grievous blow because the works of so many Roman scholars. literary geniuses, and historians were destroyed.</i><br /><br />Some of the Byzantine EMperios burned libraries. Savronola (a CHristion reformer) lit the Bonfire fo the Vanities in Fhorence: the response of mainstream Christianity was to burn him at the stake (a stronger response then we seem to get from the latest Islamo-atrocity. THe Crusaders burned the library of Constantine while generally sacking the city.<br /><br />The motives of Omar, though, seem to have been that if they books contatin something that is in the Qoran, they are unecessary, and that which is not in the Qoran, then they are wrong. This was part of a consitent worldview, also expressed at<br />- Library of Ctesiphon (Persian), destroyed by Caliph Umar<br />- Library of Al Hakam, (in peaceful, diverse Andalusia) destroyed by fundamentalist muslims<br />- Library of Rayy, destroyed by Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni<br />- Library of Ghazna, burned by Muslims, but more part of a general sack (like the 4th Crusade)<br />- Library of Nishapur, burned by the Oghuz Turks<br />- Library of Nalanda, ancient library of Buddhists, same scope as Alexandria, burned by Muslims under Bakhtiyar Khilji<br />- Bibliotheca Corviniana, destroyed by Ottoman troops<br />And, more recently<br />- Ahmed Baba Institute, in Timbuktu, by the Islamist militiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-21324179184744556762013-05-27T11:19:35.452-05:002013-05-27T11:19:35.452-05:00Rusty: "Drago. I admire your patience. and y...Rusty: "Drago. I admire your patience. and your wit"<br /><br />I was simply taking most of a Sunday to finish up some items for a client and I was using the blog to essentially "step away" and clear my head.<br /><br />I usually don't have the time to spend so much time posting.<br /><br />Fortunately, it only takes a moment or 2 or pop back and see what our "garage with a credential" happens to be saying at any given moment.<br /><br />Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079148433908004715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16453527674280335692013-05-27T11:17:17.398-05:002013-05-27T11:17:17.398-05:00alpha: "..as dishonorable a debater as you ar...alpha: "..as dishonorable a debater as you are."<br /><br />Says the guy who makes up quotes and assigns them to others!<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />You. Can't. Make. This. Stuff. Up.Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079148433908004715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-9971955208080093472013-05-27T08:03:45.323-05:002013-05-27T08:03:45.323-05:00Drago.
I admire your patience.
and your wit.Drago.<br /> I admire your patience.<br />and your wit.Rustyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00938263272237104128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-26704425503387988992013-05-27T02:48:44.894-05:002013-05-27T02:48:44.894-05:00Rrhardin said:
"You'd think Islam would...Rrhardin said: <br /><br />"You'd think Islam would have a protection money tradition like other organized crime arrangements."<br /><br />They do. It's called the jizyah. When the infidels are not under islamic domination as dhimmis, it takes the form of terroristic threats and demands for ransom. Epiphyte -https://www.blogger.com/profile/13764695910480345008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-43327470405785509052013-05-27T01:21:12.992-05:002013-05-27T01:21:12.992-05:00Our little Stalinist is becoming quite unhinged.
...Our little Stalinist is becoming quite unhinged.<br /><br />That too is expected.Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079148433908004715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-10440434315603509922013-05-27T01:19:29.496-05:002013-05-27T01:19:29.496-05:00alpha: "Galloway and I "agree" on e...alpha: "Galloway and I "agree" on exactly nothing that I know of."<br /><br />Do you believe gitmo should be closed?<br /><br />Do you believe that American conservatives are the equivalent of the Taliban?<br /><br />You and Galloway are peas in a pod.<br /><br />You just choose to emphasize different items on the left's agenda.<br /><br />You may not like the pod you're in or who all of your pod-mates are.<br /><br />But that's your problem.<br /><br />You are nothing new.<br /><br /><br /><br />Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079148433908004715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-39177685664994904682013-05-26T21:26:40.630-05:002013-05-26T21:26:40.630-05:00Says the guy who can't face the reality that h...<i>Says the guy who can't face the reality that he is aligned politically with the Galloways of the world.<br /><br />Of course, alpha will argue that even if he and Galloway do agree on some matters of policy that in no ways means alpha and Galloway are in agreement with all matters, such as Israel.</i><br /><br />Galloway and I "agree" on exactly nothing that I know of. I even challenged you to find a single position of his for me to disagree or agree to, which you neglected to do, as dishonorable a debater as you are. <br /><br />But since you are as conservative as the Taliban, instead of dealing rationally with these realities, you retreat back into your black-and-white understanding of the world and refuse to debate intelligently in any way, shape or form.<br /><br />Good job. I heard the Taliban aren't very good debaters, either. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-77479349203963845502013-05-26T21:24:08.221-05:002013-05-26T21:24:08.221-05:00No, you're not.
Nice assertion. That kind of ...<i>No, you're not.</i><br /><br />Nice assertion. That kind of confidence must a great way of convincing yourself that you're never wrong, mustn't it?<br /><br /><i>You're absconding with a classical liberal and his philosophy and trying to twist it in order to buttress your case for an ever increasing state power over the individual.</i><br /><br />Great. So then you are also berating Adam Smith on account of your allegation of his desire for "an ever increasing state power over the individual". Which is as ridiculous as it is illogical (should I expect less?). What philosophical tradition did he claim?<br /><br />In any event, if you want to deviate from Smith to claim that Locke had a better handle on economics than him, be my guest. That must be one hell of a pretzel for a conservative to twist himself into. <br />Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.com