tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post474266945339802603..comments2024-03-28T14:13:34.421-05:00Comments on Althouse: The plan to dismantle Egypt's Great Pyramids.Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16699450794450715012012-07-11T21:53:52.974-05:002012-07-11T21:53:52.974-05:00"Piss Christ" might have been avant gard..."Piss Christ" might have been avant garde, say, back in 1986. Today, the act of destroying it was probably the best possible outcome, and created great performance art in the process.<br /><br />Let me know when one of these "artistes" creates a "Piss Allah." I might almost be impressed.iqvoicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00439200041936174167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-71165251792165024972012-07-11T21:30:48.374-05:002012-07-11T21:30:48.374-05:001. Well the unifying thing is the Muslim Brotherho...1. Well the unifying thing is the Muslim Brotherhood which is powerful both in Libya and Egypt. Frankly I expect. Libya and Egypt to merge as that is one of the stated desires of the MB. Additionally the Egyptian Army is powerful while Libya doesn't have a credible military force. And Libya has oil money while Egypt is on the verge of starvation.<br /><br />On top of that the US corn and grain crops are almost literally dying in the fields. Expect food prices here to jump next year. Expect food riots in Egypt by the end of the year unless some significant amount of cash is infused.<br /><br />A cash starved Egypt can be reined in. An Egypt with money is potentially very dangerous to any number of regimes in the area including the Sauds and Israel.<br /><br />2. Personally if the Egyptians want to destroy their past, let them. What are you going to do? Have American soldiers bleed to defend a pile of stones?edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11554432958239793555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78432557919338783282012-07-11T18:07:38.938-05:002012-07-11T18:07:38.938-05:00How bad is radical Islam when it makes some of the...<i>How bad is radical Islam when it makes some of the depradations of the Stalinist period in the then USSR look banal in comparison?</i><br /><br />Stalin killed tens of millions of his own people.<br /><br />Let's keep some perspective here. Radical Islam is evil, yes. Dangerous, yes. Remotely as evil or dangerous as Communism, no.Revenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11374515200055384226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55561990728883750832012-07-11T13:37:50.711-05:002012-07-11T13:37:50.711-05:00Andy R. said...
Also, sometimes Christians de...<i>Andy R. said...<br /><br /> Also, sometimes Christians destroying culture or art that they don't like.</i><br /><br />This is what being a homosexual activist turns you into, a moral relativist who is willing to sacrifice his or her intellectual honesty on the alter of intellectual dishonesty. To point out the wrongs of others to try and satisfy the larger point of the greater wrong while ignoring the greater evil that resides within yourself. Bravo butt-boy, bravo.Methadrashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07828014989470539375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-40110015190648931642012-07-11T11:49:58.738-05:002012-07-11T11:49:58.738-05:00I don't care. It's their country and their...I don't care. It's their country and their property. Let them tear down the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Just don't give them any financial aid. No more subsidies, no more foreign aid, nothing, nada, zip, zippo, bumpkiss.paul a'bargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08854004347728185047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17783744149116373962012-07-11T11:02:10.488-05:002012-07-11T11:02:10.488-05:00And re: The plan itself - what's disturbing is...And re: The plan itself - what's disturbing is the scope of this manipulation of history. Stalin's gang erased <i>pictures</i>. And sent enemies and dissidents to gulags. Radical Islamicists want to erase entire tracts of physical history. And send people to their graves. How bad is radical Islam when it makes some of the depradations of the Stalinist period in the then USSR look banal in comparison? The only thing the radical islamicists are missing compared to the communists is the large-scale organization and industrialization; they've already got the proselytism down pat.Tiborehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07360541843865827271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-45194003461827141102012-07-11T11:01:49.833-05:002012-07-11T11:01:49.833-05:00The original European Vandals were Arian Christian...The original European Vandals were Arian Christians. They were offended by trinitarian Catholicism, therefore they torn down their churches, thus granting their name to future vandals. They believed that God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit were three different Gods. That is pretty much what modern day Mormons believe.ken in txhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345764031059905578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-75483407027840784782012-07-11T10:50:02.906-05:002012-07-11T10:50:02.906-05:00"I was talking about us. Why are we so revere...<i>"I was talking about us. Why are we so reverent toward monuments to things that we, in fact, do find offensive?</i><br /><br />Why are you speaking of human attitudes towards the pyramids, and antiquity in general, in such simplistic terms? Are the offensive elements the only things the pyramids are monuments to?Tiborehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07360541843865827271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33606799197669919982012-07-11T08:09:29.002-05:002012-07-11T08:09:29.002-05:00"Original Mike said...
"Not all Muslims..."Original Mike said... <br />"Not all Muslims want to destroy the pyramids."<br /><br />Yes, but will the ones who don't do anything about it? Their track record is not good"<br /><br />This is exactly the right question. Muslim moderates claim the radicals are not acting according to true Islam. So why are there so few moderates fighting the radicals efforts to take over Islam, and why so many "moderates" obstructing others' efforts to do so?testhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09478829894294731159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-52678337773020207072012-07-11T07:58:49.397-05:002012-07-11T07:58:49.397-05:00"Ann Althouse said...
The pyramids actually ..."Ann Althouse said... <br />The pyramids actually do represent something offensive -- exploitation of slaves, making a god out of a despot, etc. "<br /><br />I've made this point many times about the Great Wall or medieval architecture. Concern about "the poor" always seems to take a back seat to an opportunity to glorify according to the grievance hierachy.testhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09478829894294731159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-88607168059467643072012-07-11T07:50:11.311-05:002012-07-11T07:50:11.311-05:00"cubanbob said...
Make it clear that if they..."cubanbob said... <br />Make it clear that if they destroy them then there is no reason to tolerate them any further. Blockade their ports and let them starve to death."<br /><br />What requires this repsonse? They're doing something stupid, why don't we quit giving them billions of dollars a year and let it go at that?testhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09478829894294731159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5722844938173753352012-07-11T05:11:21.581-05:002012-07-11T05:11:21.581-05:00AHH Islam the religion of piece.AHH Islam the religion of piece.DEEBEEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16235176776968497303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-14161806944362065162012-07-10T23:29:13.577-05:002012-07-10T23:29:13.577-05:00The Goa'uld will not take this lying down.The Goa'uld will not take this lying down.AlanKHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00415873942467466303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27879976218603491582012-07-10T23:26:33.382-05:002012-07-10T23:26:33.382-05:00Interestingly the great Temple Complexes and Pharo...Interestingly the great Temple Complexes and Pharoah's Tombs( the Pyramids) were not done as slave labor projects at all.<br /><br />Annually the Nile floods and covers the fertile flood plain areas with mud and moisture to grow one or more abundant irrigated crops per season, which required a huge work force in growing and harvesting season. Fortunately there was surplus food. That became the leverage for Egypt's power in the area (along with up River gold mines). It also gave the well fed work force 4months off each year.<br /><br />To keep Egypt organizedfor nest saeson, the huge unemployed work force was paid and fed to do shovel ready public works jobs.<br /><br />That made the workers and their supervisors, the engineers and the artists happy, kept them out of trouble. It also produced a few monuments along the way.<br /><br /> Our own valley of the kings has our monuments near our River, called the Potomac. And in the middle of it all we even erected an Eqyptian Pharoah's Sun God obelisk and called it the City of Washington's Washington Monument.<br /><br />The cruel Arab Muslims in Egypt are nearly brain dead at anything except Jihad murder and they must rely on the super intelligent ethnic Egyptians to do all the brain work to keep life going. That's why they have let the Copts live this long.traditionalguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05706120413005530014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62644992132634869202012-07-10T23:11:35.921-05:002012-07-10T23:11:35.921-05:00I was talking about us. Why are we so reverent tow...<i>I was talking about us. Why are we so reverent toward monuments to things that we, in fact, do find offensive? Only because we feel totally disconnected from the reality of the past. Why are we so pleased with ourselves about that?</i><br /><br />This is why you are still a liberal in my eyes. Offensive? Really? You're judging something built 4500 years ago by modern ethical standards. Please...<br /><br />You might as well damn Winston Churchill's accomplishment (saving Western Civ) because he happened to be a drunk and a chauvanist.<br /><br />People EVOLVE. Cultures and civilizations EVOLVE. Lighten up. Because in 100 years your own legacy will hang in the balance because, despite whatever good you did, you supported the murder of babies in the name of Femanine Liberty.Fenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16734571593963330215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67560147212621865522012-07-10T23:08:06.450-05:002012-07-10T23:08:06.450-05:00The US as the new OPEC comment above brings to min...The US as the new OPEC comment above brings to mind something said to me by the most brilliant guy I ever met (and I've worked with some smart guys). It was in the way of speculation but gave me pause nonetheless. <br /><br />His idea was that the US has been paying a very long, multi-administration game since the early 80's concerning oil and the mideast. The US gamed it out and accepted the fact that given the obstinate feudal culture prevailing in the mideast, oil money would eventually poison the politics of the whole region. He believed the US government predicted that fundamentalist regimes would eventually burn the oil fields as a final resistance to the encroachment of western culture. The best the western industrialized nations could do politically and militarily was delay the inevitable while buying as much oil as the region would produce and sell in the interim and preserving their own energy reserves for the future.<br /><br />Interesting guy and I don't do his idea justice in a blog comment. Wish I'd thought of it actually. Be a great idea for a book if it hasn't been done already.Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01492998820078614811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-32654506074985279642012-07-10T21:59:56.973-05:002012-07-10T21:59:56.973-05:00Returning the whole mideast to 641AD would solve a...Returning the whole mideast to 641AD would solve a lot of problems. <br /><br />And as is always the case, as a country or region collapses, their best and brightest get while the going is good if they can. The US has benefited from that in the past. The worst and the most culpable get out too, but not usually to free countries (exception being Switzerland if they have the wherewithal and are willing to keep a low profile).Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01492998820078614811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-88979522822496484742012-07-10T21:57:45.919-05:002012-07-10T21:57:45.919-05:00"And yet, no one here is surprised at how he ...<i>"And yet, no one here is surprised at how he just does not get it."</i><br /><br />By this time, nobody is surprised at the size of the chip on his shoulder.Original Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714345479248980398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83769158105596893492012-07-10T21:50:23.499-05:002012-07-10T21:50:23.499-05:00"Not all Muslims want to destroy the pyramids..."Not all Muslims want to destroy the pyramids."<br /><br />Yes, but will the ones who don't do anything about it? Their track record is not good.Original Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714345479248980398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-15533682669182498182012-07-10T21:28:13.852-05:002012-07-10T21:28:13.852-05:00Ha!
Ashcroft.
Timely!
These are folks who would...<i>Ha! <br />Ashcroft. <br />Timely!</i><br /><br />These are folks who would happily saw his hatted-head off with a serrated steak knife while he watches in the mirror, and instead of being outraged at them, he's busting on Christians and some guy from ten years ago.<br /><br />And yet, no one here is surprised at how he just does not get it.Benderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09322135500288738561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-91659361480834803942012-07-10T21:19:19.230-05:002012-07-10T21:19:19.230-05:00I read the Turks were grinding the Parthenon statu...I read the Turks were grinding the Parthenon statues up to make mortar when Lord Elgin bought them, but that could have been British propaganda.Ralph Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915708905660273961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55796119674215051002012-07-10T20:56:22.777-05:002012-07-10T20:56:22.777-05:00They should just draw some boobs on the pyramids a...<i>They should just draw some boobs on the pyramids and then Ashcroft will come over and throw a big blanket over them. Problem solved!</i><br /><br />Ha! <br /><br />Ashcroft. <br /><br />Timely!Known Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15029003649395214104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20784740929018855522012-07-10T20:54:06.731-05:002012-07-10T20:54:06.731-05:00I almost want them to do it. I can't imagine a...I almost want them to do it. I can't imagine anything else that would wake people up.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02303755181174414108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-42865664162847525642012-07-10T20:52:29.404-05:002012-07-10T20:52:29.404-05:00"Not all Muslims want to destroy the pyramids..."Not all Muslims want to destroy the pyramids."<br /><br />We have a winner.Known Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15029003649395214104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64359922656056501312012-07-10T20:32:35.674-05:002012-07-10T20:32:35.674-05:00Also, Islamists don't like modernity. Western ...Also, Islamists don't like modernity. Western technology. Foreign interference in their country. All the sorts of things symbolized by the Aswan Dam. I think we could help them remedy that. I doubt it would take more than one megaton.Michael Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14743374948688708232noreply@blogger.com