Tuesday Open Comments Thread
by David Benzion · 10/11/2005 1:13 amSo exciting.
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On the Run From Chinese Secret Police - A Call for Help
A friend is in trouble. Big trouble…
Urgent from Lost Budgie Blog
On the Run From Chinese Secret Police - A Call for Help
Posting and links at: http://lostbudgie.blogspot.com/2005/10/on-run-from-chinese-secret-police-call.html
At the time of this email, Mr. Hua Huigi has been on the run for about ten hours - hiding from the Chinese Secret Police in Beijing. He is being actively hunted and is frightened for his family, his friends and lastly for himself.
His crime, simply put: Mr. Hua is a Christian who wouldn’t keep his mouth shut about the police kidnapping of a Christian lady earlier this year.
Earlier this morning, seven thugs from the Secret Police raided his home and terrorized his family.
International public attention and pleas have saved Christians before in Communist China, and friends of Mr. Hua (including Lost Budgie) are now hoping that the blog world will take five minutes to save a man whose only crime is to be a Christian.
Please check out the Lost Budgie Blog for details and links, and if you can find a moment - help out by bringing this manhunt into the light of international public scrutiny.
Thanks!
Lost Budgie
Toronto, Canada
Matt/David/Budgie -
Don’t you Blogger types ever sleep?
UCLA attempted bombing:
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=34408
California… Oklahoma… why don’t we hear more about these in the MSM?
I’m not an advocate of running around scared like Patty Hearst seems to think we’re doing, but wouldn’t a bit of prudent vigilance be in order?
Mike,
you know the pattern of our guvmnet. Look at all the Alien spacecraft crashes on this planet and the way they were covered up. For some reason the so called leaders think we cant handle the truth.
Fact is the alcaders are here right now and these are just tests to see how we react. My bet is they are going to use stupid left looney white boys to make the drops so they wont be profiled. The SLLWB’S can be easily made to hate this country and do harm to us.
Yeah Gregg, I suppose the truth will set you free, or get you fired, or both.
It appears that Mr. Pat Tillman was more than just a jock. Whether he agreed with Chomsy or not Tillman was willing to read far [left] and wide.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1007-22.htm
(snip)
As for Chomsky, whom Ann Coulter would undoubtedly label “treasonous,” Mary Tillman says a private meeting was planned between him and Pat after Pat’s return–a meeting that never took place, of course. Chomsky confirms this scenario. This was the real Pat Tillman: someone who, like the majority of this country, was doubting the rationale for war, distrusting his Commander in Chief and looking for answers. The real Pat Tillman, the one with three dimensions, must stick in the throat of the Bush-Coulter gang, a pit in the cherry atop their bloody sundae.
Note that the second word in the Chron’s article about Kevin Brady’s DUI arrest is “republican.”
I would like to see a short list of other politicians’ legal problems, to see where the word “democrat” first appears.
Anyone want to be that “republican” lawmakers are always identified as such in the first paragraph, while you’ll have to turn the page to find the party affiliation of the democrat transgressors?
I’m not holding my breath waiting for takers for this bet.
So many subjects on which to comment….
I guess we won’t be seeing Matt or Budgie for awhile…since they posted in the middle of the night!
The reason Republicans get nailed on any DUI or police matter is that they hold themselves up as moral. The Democrats do not so when they screw up its just another day.
On another topic,
Who came up with today’s lame poll? Benzion?!
#11 Bill Roberts
Why do you ask?
good grief…
Man accused of trying to ignite wife, her son
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/10/05/Hillsborough/Man_accused_of_trying.shtml
#11 Bill Roberts
Does it matter?! Just vote…
And be sure you vote the right way!
(Benzion…I’m here for ya, man!)
I noticed the Muslims didn’t waste much time before they got around to criticizing the American response to their little disaster. I don’t mean to berate the horrible suffering that they are no doubt experiencing, but come on. When things are going smoothly it’s all ‘death to America’ and ‘let’s burn an effigy of George Bush’. When trouble comes along, all of a sudden it’s ‘why aren’t the Americans handling this’? I’ll tell you why. IT IS BECAUSE WE ARE VERY BUSY ATTEMPTING TO PREVENT YOU FROM MURDERING US! Perhaps if those guys could ease up on the whole trying to murder us thing we’d have more resources to spare for saving their butts when a disaster strikes them.
Well, it looks like the Russkies have decided to back the Muslims in the Middle East since they are selling their hitech strategic missles to Syria. They just can’t seem to get the picture, can they?
The Muslims want all of us dead. Us meaning every human being on earth who does not bow down towards Mecca 5 times daily.
Not surprising though, this turn of events and shift in power balance may be the final straw in the Muslims quest for world dominance. Unfortunately for them, these oh so wise religious peace-loving folk, they have made the wrong decision A-G-A-I-N. The first missile that launches either toward Israel or the battle theatre in Iraq or any US position in the Mid-east will bring down upon the Muslim world not the joyous victtory celebrations their simple minds expect but rather the fires of nuclear hell they cannot comprehend.
Oh, they want nukes, they want us to be the victims of their Mohamedan madness. And they will get nukes, raining on them from Jerusalem and every US unit so equipped.
When the smoke clears, as always they’ll be lying in the dirt, burned, irradiated, sobbing, crying, screaming……for what you ask? Oh, not now for revenge, that comes later. They will be crying for help, help from the US (that means us, their intended victims of the horror they brought to themselves), help in the form of money, equipment, manpower, sympathy, empathy.
And this time, God willing, we will have the sense to leave their ragged worthless corpses rotting in the fields and villages and capital cities to be tended to by their oh-so-loving-and-helpful Muslim brethren. This time let us see what this helpless hopeless groups of tribal savages can do for THEMSELVES!
The answer, you know, will be…….NOTHING. They will cry out, whine, and demand succor from their oppressors, never realizing that their oppressors all along have been themselves.
And so, as days pass, the cries will grow weaker and then there will be silence in the land. And when the jackals and ravens and feral hogs and other scavengers of the land and air have had their fill and moved on, the ravaged sand will slowly but inexorably cover all evidence of the human tragedy know as Mohamadanism.
Dern Jonesy, I thought I was mean. You’ve got me beat by a long shot. But I’m not saying that I disagree with you.
Geez, somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed. I don’t usually get that pissed until after noon.
Dean Jones & viLuZioN
Our “good friends” the Russians have been in bed with the Muslims for groups of years. Iran and Russia have had a mutual assistance agreement since the 1980’s along with an agreement to develop nuclear technology in Iran.
Russia has always wanted to be a big player in the world. What better way to solidify that position than diametrically opposing the US policies at every turn. Russia has weapons and weapons technology to sell. Syria is at odds with Israel and the United States, hmmmm instant market. I fear your bleak outlook may come true.
#16 Dean,
The scenario you present does seem plausible to me as well. I don’t know how religious you are, but you may find the following of interest:
http://www.studytoanswer.net/islam_myths.html
I haven’t read it all myself.
#2. Lost Budgie
An update to the story on Mr. Huiqi, who was caught, beaten and eventually released:
http://www.earnedmedia.org/caa1011.htm
jimb
Could this be one of our intrepid late night bloggers? Or could it be your humble moderator?
Squawky,
I wasn’t aware that the LST staff had an Aspiring Sumo Wrestler’s club.
So that’s what MMoA stands for! Now it all makes sense…
#20 Mike Martin
Interesting read there…
That should be read by more people…including the liberal press and our elected officials (both Reps and Dems!)
#25 MM+I,
Yeah, it strikes me as odd that the picture that is painted of the Muslim faith is always one where the terrorists are not really acting on behalf of Islam. Despite an obviously large number of Christians here who believe Islam to be fundamentally flawed, the story always seems to lead to the “wayward” Muslim terrorist explanation. Unbiased reporting? Well at least not truly representative reporting.
President Bush seems to buy into this line of reasoning. I’m not necessarily saying I disagree with GWB though, folks like the Free Muslim Coalition at least pay lip service to condemning Muslim terrorists, and they may well be genuine in their sentiment. They stand in stark contrast to CAIR and others of their ilk.
I guess if you look at things from a strictly numbers point of view, the point could be made that Muslims are the undisputed champions of hate crime perpetration in the world. The part of the whole thing that scares me is the point that Dean Jones raised. That is, even though there may be peaceful Muslims who could coexist with westerners, they may have their chance of doing so removed by the fanatics among them. The burden is on reasonable Muslims to overthrow the fanatics in their ranks. If they can’t do this, the alternative is pretty grim.
For the Muslim terrorist, I wonder what the Koran says about taking help from the infidels—those they swore to kill. Let’s see if they can divert some of that terrorist money for the benefit of their own or whether it is still important to kill the infidels. Maybe it a sign from above that they are interpreting the Koran incorrectly and death and destruction is now raining down on them!!!!
#22 Squawkbox
Why did you have to link to THAT image…?
EEEK…I CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD!!!
Puhleez…post another link that is easier on the eyes!
OK Me_Myself_n_I
Just for you. This could possibly be another of our midnight bloggers.
#29 Squawkbox
ROTFL…thanx, man!
What’s the feeling out there in regards to Mr. Bush and his choice of Ms. Miers as the newest SCJ?
Does anyone feel she is the most qualified nominee, as Bush stated?
Hey Willie,
Check these out for starters.
Sqawkbox # 19
How can you blame the Russians for selling weapons to Iran or Syria. After all we DID fund and arm Osama in Afghanistan and Saddam in Iraq, along with the contras vs the sandinistas.
The only people to ever come back and bite the russians for their trangressions has been the chechnyans.
I don’t blame russia for wanting to be a world power nor would I blame China either, and it sucks they sell there weapons to other countries, but after all we still sell weapons to all sort of questionable peoples for favors, look how much we give the Saudis and Pakastanis.
Neither side has any scruples.
Blame? I never assigned blame. I simply stated a fact. Maybe I did not state the point directly, If we the US go fight Iran or even Syria we will probably be fighting Russia directly or indirectly.
If I was too look at Russia’s actions in a business sense, it makes good sense for Russia to side with America’s tradtional enemies. Russia needs money so sell weapons to the enemies of the United States.
Whatever Syria, Iran, Pakistan or whoever does it is their freewill. I will say this, I am not so sure that if Israel is attacked that the United States would rush to their aid. I would hope so, but I don’t think so.
#16 Wow! I hope someday you are appointed Secretary of Defense or Homeland Security. Sic ‘em.
The chief function and the only function of supreme court judges is to apply constituitional law to the case as is brought to the bench.That said why should it matter what political hat justices are wearing as long as they do not bring th
eir personal bias into their decisions.
The argument that we do not know enough about sexy Harriet to approve her nomination should work both ways, we should not place obstacles in her way precisely for the same reason.
Rahman
Show me any judge or lawyer that does not bring their personal bias to the bench with them and I will show you “gawd”. There ain’t no one in the world that can be 100% objective.
Other than that we basically agree.
#36
I guess that’s the question; whether to insist on conservative offsets to the unashamedly liberal justices, and thereby fight the trend of justices NOT merely applying constitutional law but instead making up new “rights.”
The left has no qualms about applying litmus tests and vetting nominees based solely on ideology. Do we do the same to stop them or do we stand (and then fall) on our own principle?
I don’t pretend to know myself.
If you have nothing to do 14-16 of October may I suggest the
5th Annual Texas Bigfoot Conference.
I’m going. Mrs. Squawk says I look like Bigfoot so I should fit right in.
Why is it that in the private sector people are encouraged to leave the workforce at age 64 but in guvment that seems to be the starting age?
Dunno. Why don’t you ask a WalMart greeter?
Hey, guys - maybe I am a bit behind, but check this out:
http://danpatrickforsenate.com/
Saw it over on BlogHouston. Surprised it wasn’t posted here sooner…
By the way, any updates to the KerryWatch lately?
re #16,
Where’s mr. wino, the defender of the down trodden, to standup and come to the defense these poor muslims being senselessly attacked here?
rj