Friday Open Comments Thread
by David Benzion · 02/24/2006 6:45 am
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Ha!(tm)
Last AND first! My day is complete - I can go back to bed now…
Not so fast stinkerbell.
Thouhgt one of the regular Bloggers could make something of this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/24/national/24traffic.html?ex=1141448400&en=1291dac535b83926&ei=5059&partner=AOL
In Land of Freeways, Mass Transit Makes Nary a Dent
Gotta love Johnah Goldberg:
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Jonah+Goldberg%3a+Constitution+is+alive!+No%2c+wait%2c+it%e2%80%99s+dead&articleId=cb91706d-6623-4911-97dc-3a9f3f1788f4
He says something here that most of you guys will recognize:
“Al Gore summarized the almost universal view among leading liberals when in 2000 he promised, if elected, to appoint judges “who understand that our Constitution is a living and breathing document,” and who grasp that “it was intended by our founders to be interpreted in the light of the constantly evolving experience of the American people.” Notice how Gore used the word “understand” instead of “believe,” suggesting that the living Constitution is a fact of life and those who don’t see it are ignorant as opposed to merely wrong.”
How many times have Liberals said to any of you guys something similar on just about any topic that’s dicussed here?
The piece is a good one and worth a read.
Will be BZ again today…those Methodidsts in Jacksonville are adamant about getting thier church on time and we’re behind the 8 ball…..
#5 Sarge,
You’ve gotta love it when politicians present opinion so thinly disguised as fact. You know the old saying though about fooling some of the people some of the time. Fortunately, some people do pay attention to those pesky little opinion vs. fact details.
Great book to read (hattip to J)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0976726904/qid=1140749602/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-1170617-7541640
#5 Thanks Sarge, great article. BTW: One of the Dakota’s, (they both look the same to me), voted to ban Abortion. The ban was promoted by a female democrat!? Go figure!!
It was South Dakota, Click on; http://womensissues.about.com/cs/abortionlaw/a/sdabortionban_2.htm
YAAAH! Rodeo Cookoff is here!
At some point in Iraq we need to make it clear that they need to get their crap together and build a country or we are leaving. This thing is turning into a episode of COPS where the officers are at a trailer park trying to help out a couple who beating the crap out of each other,then they turn on the cops.
#4
Hey Sarge,
I was born and raised in that gobbledeegook and I now live 100 miles north in the desert. I go down into the brown swill of confusion only to go to my parents grave sites and deliver flowers, visit my little brother or friends that I consider worth the trouble. You haver a city that is 75 miles N to S and 40 miles E to W. Over priced, over populated, over polluted, over taxed, over liberal and under mannered.
Reload for me will ya, I’m going to change lanes on the freeway again.
Actually, it was Phoenix who was last on Thursday’s open comments thread. She was just posing as me so as to fool ya! Way to go Phoenix!!!
I read the Neal Boortz Nuze page every morning. Today he has an excellent analogy of school vouchers.
http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html
Here is most of the good stuff.
Imagine government grocery stores. Groceries are essential, aren’t they? Come on, you have to eat! So let’s say that about 100 years ago someone came up with the brilliant idea of establishing a system of government-run grocery stores. To make sure that every American got enough to eat, local governments created a nutrition tax. All property owners had to pay a nutrition tax every year amounting to thousands of dollars. Under this great government plan you are assigned to a grocery store when you move into a neighborhood. Every year the local government creates a credit for you at this grocery store; an account in your name. When you want to buy groceries you have to go to this store and no other. Would your assigned grocery store feel any pressure to make sure that you get the best quality foods? Would this grocery store work hard to determine what its customers want? Would you be assured of the latest technology and products? The answer to all of these questions is, of course, no! Why would they? What do they have to fear? Competition? There IS no competition! The citizen’s money is taken away from him by force and put into an account at one particular grocery store, and no other store. If you want to go to a private, non-government-operated grocery store you are going to have to dig into your own pockets and spend even more money! You’re trapped, and the grocery store managers and employees know it. There is no real need to deliver a quality shopping experience or the best products. Instead of focusing on their customers these managers and employees focus on getting even more money and benefits from the government.
Oh .. and government grocery store clerks would be focusing on one more thing … preventing competition. Every once in a while someone is going to step forward with a rather radical idea. Someone is going to suggest that people be given vouchers equal to the amount they pay in grocery taxes so that they, like their rich neighbors, can go shop at those private grocery stores where fresher food and a wider variety of products are availabe! As soon as this suggestion is made the managers and employees of the government grocery stores are going to erupt into howls of anguish. They will say that this is all a plot to destroy public grocery stores. They will wail that groceries are a necessity and that there should not be any competition in the selling of those groceries. They will watch every politician like a hawk, making sure that none of them even utter so much as a hint that they might be willing to consider the idea of grocery vouchers, and they’ll build a government employee union that is so strong and so far-reaching that only the boldest of politicians would dare to cross that line.
It’s not groceries we’re talking about my friends. It’s your children. How long are you going to let these teacher’s unions run the show like this?
OK who is definitely going tonight?
There’s nothing I love more then a cold beer, good food and great music on a Friday. Sally I second your “Yeah for the Rodeo Cookoff”.
Grab your wallets kids.
Oil jumps $2 on Saudi oil blast
Headshaker-I’ll be there tonight, but not for long. Heading to the cook off after!
Spark-nothing I love more than a cold beer, good food and great music on Thursday, Friday and Staurday nights!
heyz guyz i am in cs but this is the lowes # i have ever gotten on open co ments
I knew there was a reason I loved this sport.
Olympic curlers have nude calendar
PINEROLO, Italy (AP) - In the surest sign yet that curling has reached the big time, the stone-and-broom game has joined other Olympic endeavors with a nude calendar.
A Cajun man wants a job, but the foreman won’t hire him until he passes a little math test. Here is your first question, the foreman said. “Without using numbers, represent the number 9.”
“Without numbers?” The Cajun says, “Dat is easy.” And proceeds to draw three trees.
“What’s this?” the boss asks?
“Ave you got no brain? Tree and tree and tree make nine,” says the Cajun.
“Fair enough,” says the boss. “Here’s your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99.”
The Cajun stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree. “Ere you go.”
The boss scratches his head and says, “How on earth do you get that to represent 99?”
“Each of da trees is dirty now. So, it’s dirty tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree. Dat is 99.”
The boss is getting worried that he’s going to actually have to hire this Cajun, so he says, “All right, last question. Same rules again, but represent the number 100.”
The Cajun stares into space some more, then he picks up the picture again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree and says, “Ere you go. One hundred.”
The boss looks at the attempt. “You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!”
The Cajun leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree and says, “A little dog come along and crap by each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, which makes one hundred.”
“So, when I start?”
17 Squawk,
Nothing like a THWARTED attach to get the paranoia up and running. $2 a barrel? A little overreaction I think
Vic
#22
I caught that myself. Wanna bet the oil price does not come down as quickly as it jumped up.
15 When and where?
If I can get the squids a sitter I’ll try to come
bweldon
All the particulars can be found here.
Map link included
http://lonestartimes.com/2006/02/20/lst-barblogging-tour-heads-to-wolfies/
Two tall trees, a birch and a beech are growing in the woods. A small tree begins to grow between them. The beech says to the birch “Is that a son of a beech or a son of a birch?”
The birch says he cannot tell.
Just then a woodpecker lands on the sapling.
The birch says, “Woodpecker, you are a tree expert. Can you tell if that is a son of a beech or a son of a birch?”
The woodpecker takes a taste of the small tree.
He replies, “It is neither a son of a beech nor a son of a birch. It is, however, the best piece of ash I have ever put my pecker in!”
hamous #26 That joke is so old it was included in my great great great etc etc Grandad’s will. In fact that joke was first told when the dentist was carving George Washington’s teeth.I know, I know, but it still makes me laugh! Like the “greatest invention” joke. Obviously I’m easily amused.
Ok, how bout this one?
A blind guy on a bar stool shouts to the bartender, “Wanna hear a blonde joke?”In a hushed voice, the guy next to him says, “Before you tell that joke, you should know something. Our bartender is blond and the bouncer is blond. I’m a 6′ tall, 200-pound black belt veteran of the Special Forces. The guy sitting next to me is 6′ 2″, weighs 225 and he’s a rugby player. The fella to your right is 6′ 5″, pushing 300 pounds and he’s a wrestler. Each one of us is blond. Think about it, mister. You still wanna tell that joke?”
The blind guy thinks for a moment and replies, “Nah, not if I’m going to have to explain it five times.”
Squawk,
I’ll take Hamous’ joke over Big and Shakey fighting about how drunk (or not drunk) Cheney was.
I’m not going to comment at all today. I don’t want to get my ass kicked tonight!
I knew a girl once who wan engaged to a boy who had a wooden leg but she broke it off.
(imagine drum roll here)
Spark
#30
Damn did not think about that.
HAMOUS as you were
headshaker
#31
That is like the little kid that decides to be good on Christmas Eve cause Santa is coming the next day.
#34 - Squawkie, they didn’t call me The Weasel for nothing! LOL!
headshaker
#35
The Weasel?!!??
I knew there was more than one reason why I liked you.
The Taco Bell Chihuahua, a Doberman and a Bulldog are in a bar having adrink when a great-looking female Collie comes up to them and says, “Whoever can say liver and cheese in a sentence can have me.”
So the Doberman says, “I love liver and cheese.” The Collie replies, “That’s not good enough.”
The Bulldog says, “I hate liver and cheese.” She says, “That’s not creative enough.”
Finally, the Chihuahua says, “Liver alone . . . cheese mine.”
#36 You mean other than my Mensa-like intelligence, sharp wit, and handsome looks?
Squawk,
Since it is Friday (and Rodeo Cookoff day) can you issue a ban on all things Cheney?
PLEASE!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Remember….every calendar’s days are numbered!
And…A shotgun wedding is a case of wife or death.
Spark
#39
I have much power at my beckoning call, the magical mysterious disappearing post button, the cyber commenter ejection seat and yes even the biotch slap from hell, but that little thing I cannot do.
Hey squawk do you think that they will ever have
a delete comments button here like the one over at
move on in case you want to take something back?
there goes all my hopes and dreams for world (well LST) peace
I told you yesterday the stars were aligned right when Alan Dershowitz says Harvard has become too left wing.
Then we have female democrats supporting bans on abortion.
And NOW, we have Univ. of Washington liberals backpedaling on honoring Medal of Honor recipients:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/260404_memorial22.html
The only drunkenness I want to discuss today is mine and my fellow commenters tonight at Wolfie’s.
P.S.
I hope you can make it tonight Squawk, Smacktle may never fully recover if you don’t. I can just picture it now… Smacky sobbing… the tears dripping into his beer… sheesh.
Smacktle
#42
Ummmm I dunno. I will suggest it to the LST gawwduhhh.
To heck with world peace. Here’s what I do.
Big45Iron (and Sarge if you are lurking about)
You two characters like WWII history like moi. Check this out. I got to visit this place before it was cleaned up.
#45 The Dude
squawk just does something to me I can’t control,
I get all mushy inside. When he said he might not
be able to come, it felt like my heart was being
ripped out.
There’s a tear in my beer
’cause I’m cryin’ for you,dear
you are on my lonely mind.
Into these last nine beers
I have shed a million tears.
You are on my lonely mind
I’m gonna keep drinkin’
until I’m petrified.
And then maybe these tears
will leave my eyes.
There’s a tear in my beer
cause I’m crying’ for you dear
You are on my lonely mind.
Squawk,
Have a heart man! Did you read that #49? If that doesn’t get you, how about that caption:
I have a heart read Sparks #39 my number 41 This is for Spark.
muhwahahahaha
Wulp! Let’s get things started. Here is a story of a guy that Cheney provided a great object lesson that a Olympic snowboarder could learn from.
Snowboarder could learn from Cheney
This really brought a tear to my eye. The man’s wisdom exceeds his youthful appearance. There is hope for our future after all. My faith in man has been restored. My life is complete and I am at peace.
But here is the money quote.
Posted by Squawkbox
Starting Click Here one day at a time.
I will not reveal my identity tonight. You have to figure it out for yourselves. I have stabilized my head to ensure I fit in!
#52
He only took the blame to take the heat off of the intoxication rumors!
OK, beat me up tonight I don’t care!
Shakey
#53
You don’t think this or maybe this might be a little give away as to your secret identity?
OOOOHHHHH Wip me, beat me, stomp on my fingers and make me write hot checks. Gawwwwduhhh I love pain.
Headshaker,
I’ll be on the lookout for a guy carrying a tennis racket who says “ha!” alot.
#55 - Damn you found me!
#57 - Yeah I’m glad you reminded me about the “Ha!” thing. I do it all the time. Phew that could have blown my cover!
I’ll be the black guy.
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion!
And, if you don’t pay your exorcist, you’ll get repossessed!
It’s suppose to be a crappy weekend weather wise and we have the two grandsons coming over. (8 and 4) I just know that some of you out there in LST land have some neat ideas to keep them busy. I’d welcome any ideas for some neat/fun things/games to do!
THANKS!!!!
Squawk,
Why must you torture me so? You are beyond evil!
#59 - LMFAO
And I thought you were a hot blonde chick! Geez!
I used to like that “Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego” game. Tonight it’s “Where in the Wolfies is Headshaker”. What’s the award for finding HS?
A date with squawk?
#64
Smackie, sorry but as Mrs. Doubtfire says..”I don’t do the males!”
#64,
Oh crap… nevermind… I ain’t playin’. I’ll just watch out for nihilists instead. F#*^&%g nihilists! They believe in nothing.
Look for the guy going “Baaaaaaah”
OK here’s a description so y’all can find me easily:
6′5″
Long golden locks
Six-Pack Abs
Big Biceps
Is that enough?
59: LOL!
#68 - maybe if we were looking for Fabio…
#70 jimb - I’m more like his cousin - Flabbio.
#68, #70,
I cahnnt beleeve it’s not Headshaker.
#68
So should we actually be lloking for the opposite:
Maybe 5′
Bald
Beer belly
Skinny arms
oops…I mean “looking”
Squawk posted “Tear in my Beer”
Maybe we can get something going with this:
I’ve made a small fortune, and you’ve squandered it all.
You’ve shamed me till I feel about one inch tall.
But I thought I loved you, and I hoped you would change,
so I gritted my teeth and didn’t complain.
Now you’ve come to me with a simple goodbye.
You tell me you’re leaving, but you won’t tell me why.
We’re here at the station and you’re getting on.
And all I can think of is………
Thank God and Greyhound you’re gone!
Thank God and Greyhound you’re gone!
I didn’t know how much longer I could go on,
watching you take the respect out of me,
watching you make a total wreck out of me.
That big diesel motor is a playing my song.
Thank God and Greyhound you’re gone!
Thank God and Greyhound you’re gone!
That load on my mind got lighter when you got on.
That shiney old bus is a beautiful sight,
with the black smoke rolling up around the tail lights.
It may sound kinda cruel, but I’ve been silent too long:
Thank God and Greyhound you’re gone!
Thank God and Greyhound you’re gone!
Hey Shakey;
Give us a hint…tell us how old you are
#73
No more clues! I’m going to try and go thru the whole night without anyone finding me out!
#76
Sarge, are you going?
headshaker I bet you can’t last 10 minutes not
getting all the attention.
Shakey is 41 I believe. I seem to recall saying that the hereditary bobbling disappears at 48 and he had seven years of dizziness left.
#60
Here’s some stuff for the grandkids to do:
Indoor grenade toss (If they start getting bored, take out the pin….)
10 meter low crawl taking advantage of Living Room Furniture cover
CQB (Close Quarters Battle) drill with Field Improvised kitchen implements of destruction…
works at the compoud. Everytime I suggest any of these, there’s a lot of TV watching…..
#80
Well that would explain a lot of things…….
#82 sarge - LMAO - I admit I’m in a mid-life crisis! 40 sucks!
My wife and I are sharing the Motrin!
#84 I mean Midol! LOL!
HOLEEEE CRAAAPPPP Now I am in trouble. Mrs. Squawk just IMed me about the Wolfies picture on the front page and said that there was no way in hell I was going without her. She also said she is wondering if Bramanti and "Shakey" were code words for strippers. She said she was not even going to speculate on "Smacktle".
Damn she knows me too well.
#5
So Scalia was speaking directly to Gore in his speech a few weeks ago!
Gore is a jackass! and a communist!
That would love to strip all of our God given Constitutional rights!
Now I don’t have to wonder why his head shakes.
#83
That’s not what I meant Shakey.
Since you think it’s reasonable to assume that since someone got a DWI more than 40 years ago he has a “drinking problem,” (which assumes nothing has changed in the interim)…it’s reasonable for me to assume that you view politics with the mind of a 2 year old.
JK, dude…just pointing out the flaw in the logic…..
#31 - headshaker:
You underestimate us Shakey. Honest discourse is good for debate.
#85 - Don’t tell the Mrs. about Spark, BSue, Phoenix, Sally Loudmouth, and D.J. Disco Tex and His Sex-O-Lettes.
That Dude character sounds sort of suspicious, too…
Wait a minute…don’t tell me The Dude is a Dudette. Say it ain’t so, Dude!
#91, naaw, he’s suspicious because he keeps changing his name…
When are we going to have a bar blog in Ft Bend county or Bear Creek?
Wow. Those are 2 pretty different locations…
#90 Jimb
You make us sound like homewreckers
#95 naaw, just tryin’ to get a jab in at Squawk…
sarge, headshaker asked you a direct question in
post #78 and you didn’t answer. Isn’t that one
the liberal laws of debate?
# 93
My vote is for Bear Creek
headshaker
If turning 40 sucks let me give you some FUD to chew on. 50 is even more fun.
The only homewrecker in the house of Squawk is this. And the Mrs. has contol.
Good because I am nobody’s homewrecker
I actually do some modeling
this WAS a linkto a page on the World Wide Web. in my spare timeSmackie you are beautiful
I was doing some research for my previous post
at #102 and came across
this
Smackie
I do believe you have rendered everybody else speechless
#105 Spark
Hardly anybody saw it because squawk is on the ball. Probably almost gave him a heart attack
on my next post.
Squawk when you get a chance can you move my this.
Nah, it ain’t so. Squawk had me wondering with the Bramanti thing, though. You gotchu a pair a dem Ted Kennedy boobs workin’?
I’ve seen pictures of The Dude. Trust me, he ain’t no Dudette!
Ah crap, what did I miss? I like to be speechless. C’mon Smacktle, e-mail me.
Maybe we should switch some of those tax dollars from Pakistan - which still harbors and allows the people who attacked us on 9/11 to train - and give them to better allies like Germany.
“Germany admits it gave Iraq intelligence to Washington”
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=52&story_id=27950&name=Germany+admits+it+gave+Iraq+intelligence+to+Washington
#109
You missed a half naked transvestite
Thank you Hamous. You are correct, but I do like this song:
Lumberjack Song - Monty Python
I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK
I sleep all night and I work all day.
Chorus:
He’s a lumberjack and he’s OK
He sleeps all night and he works all day.
I cut down trees, I eat my lunch
I go to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays I go shopping and have buttered scones for tea
Mounties:
He cut down trees, he eat his lunch
He go to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays he go shopping and has buttered scones for tea.
Chorus:
He’s a lumberjack and he’s OK
He sleeps all night and he works all day.
I cut down trees, I skip and jump
I like to press wild flowers.
I put on women’s clothing and hang around in bars.
Mounties:
He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps
He likes to press wild flowers.
He puts on women’s clothing and hangs around in bars?!
Chorus:
He’s a lumberjack and he’s OK
He sleeps all night and he works all day.
I cut down trees, I wear high heels
Suspenders and a bra.
I wish I’d been a girlie, just like my dear papa!
Mounties:
He cuts down trees, he wears high heels?!
Suspenders…and a bra?!
…He’s a lumberjack and he’s OK
He sleeps all night and he works all day.
…He’s/I’m a lumberjack and he’s/I’m OK
He/I sleep all night and he/I work all day.
Ummm… scratch that e-mail request Smacky.
#60 - Malcolm
My grandsons enjoy using markers on my large sliding glass door. I get the makers that mark in paint, like the car lots use. You can get them inexpensively at Hobby Lobby in various colors. It washes off easily with windex and they love the idea that they can mark on my windows. They spend hours being creative. Also, you can set up a tent in an extra bedroom and let them go “camping”,even have lunch in there on a blanket like a picnic. Get large boxes form any store, let them decorate them and they become rocket ships, submarines, caves, and anything else they need it to be. These are all “cost-effective” games to play. Have fun.
Smacky,
Wish I could make it up there. Maybe next time there’s a far west side soiree I can make it. By the way someone told me your middle name is MULLIGAN.
On a more serious note, does anyone have any opinions of Patricia Harless they’d like to share? I’m not in district 7… I’m in district 126. WWDPD?
Is this gonna be the theme song tonight?
Or are some of the posters of the fairer sex gonna be there?
Michael Jerkoff was unaware of port deal?
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060224-123748-3727r.htm
He also said the border problem was overblown the day before the mexican military standoff!
What is homeland security?
I fear we are fast becoming a banana republic!
I also read a poll today that said since this infamous port deal Americans favor democrats to lead.
Bravo Bush! Nice job of handing over the torch!
Hamous #117, after that post, it’s not likely they’ll be there, lol.
Daniel, have you considered running for office? Just curious.
#117
I was thinking of going but now I think I’ll leave the fun to all of you men
#114 Meemaw
Thanks for the advice. Will you come over and wash my patio door and windows when they’re gone?
Already have the boxes! That’s always a fun thing to do and they play for hours!
We also have handcuffs, gags, duct tape and earplugs when all else fails.
Wish us luck!
#119 & #121 - That’s why I asked the questions
#120
Yes I have.
And this piece is from the mouth of a former Green Beret and Ranger. Thank God the good people are waking up to the ROT of our gov and politics!
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48979
I answer to the direct question asked in #78
No I will not be able to make it…durn Methodists still want thier church.
BTW, there’s a guy here at Capitalist corner who is pretty pissed at Dan. He and his wife are looking for a new house, and b/c of those Methodists, the only time they have to look is at nitght. They drive through the neighborhoods here in Bear Creek looking for “For Sale” signs. The problem is that in the headlights, “For Sale” signs look just like Dan’s signs. They drive down a street thinking there’s lots of houses for sal on it, but it turns out they are all just Dan supporters…
Jimb:
Yah, FBC and Bear Creek are far apart. One end is where I live, the other is where I work.
There are a lot of ladies reading this, I know
one that said she is addicted to it. I wish she
would post, she has a great sense of humour
#116 The Dude
Look no farther than her endorsements
Beer Alliance of Texas PAC
Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas
#125
Hickory Downs, Eagle Trail and Rippling Water have roughly 30 plus Dan Patrick signs. Maybe 6 for sale signs.
I was wondering why certain parts of Bear Creek have no Dan Patrick signs while others are chalked full.
Lack of participation, apathy or no one knocked doors?
127
Dan,
Wil Barnes and gadboy own those other houses.
headshaker Says:
February 24th, 2006 at 10:45 am
I will not reveal my identity tonight. You have to figure it out for yourselves. I have stabilized my head to ensure I fit in!
Headshaker…you removed the marbles so they don’t make that sound when you shake your head? DANG!
Well, I was going to go to Wolfie’s tonight but if I can’t hear you shaking your head…well…what’s the point? Actually, if I posted more, I would come. I know you guys are going to have a great time. Have one for me!
(See I KNOW why you shake your head…you like the sound!)
#125 sarge
Have them go on http://www.har.com click on single family homes. They have all the houses that are on the market with pictures and you can define your search any way you need to.
HMMMMMMMMM………
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060224/ap_en_tv/current_lawsuits_1
#128 Shannon
LOL!
What’s the chance of getting streaming video of the event tonight at Wolfies? Wouldn’t that be a hoot? Everyone would be wearing their “stage” name tags! OR, there could be a contest among the LST’ers trying to guess who is who. The winner who guessed the most correct “Posters in attendance” would win one of hamous’ famous spot on awards or a lifetime memebrship to you know where!
Those of you who atend tonight have a great AND safe time!
I have a tremendous amount of respect for Mansoor Ijaz. For those of you who don’t know know him, he has an incredible background.
http://www.benadorassociates.com/ijaz.php
Ijaz was one of the prime people who helped arrange for Sudan to give up Bin Ladin…but couldn’t get Clinton to react. The above website has a number of his articles available for access towards the bottom half of the website.
Below are his thoughts on the port deal. I’ll be curious about your feed back.
http://www.nationalreview.com/ijaz/ijaz.asp
This is a man I tend to take very seriously on his opinions.
#133 - malcolm, while I’d love to take credit for the “spot on” award, that must go to neocon. I haven’t developed an award yet. Here are the ones I’m aware of:
USCS Award - I have one of those, a special edition one.
Neocon’s Spot On - I have one of those
Big45Iron’s Fart & Spew - I received the first one of those ever handed out (a future trivia question for Blog Tour night)
Sarge’s Attaboy - I recieved three of those (two at one time!)
BIG45Iron,
There is a similar argument given by the Free Muslim Coalition, whose opinions I also value. See yesterday’s open comment thread, comment #16. I’m trying to stay open minded about the whole thing, but as yet, my opinion has not changed.
#134
I tend to tune anyone out that plays the race card!
Do you have an opinion ?
Well above you posted his.
Its his opinion…and most Americans have voiced theirs!
The majority DONT WANT IT!
#134 - Big, I also think highly of Ijaz. I will respectfully disagree with him on this one for a few reasons:
1. One of only three governments to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government.
2. A lot of terrorist money funneled through their banks.
3. Despite the government’s relationship with the US, a large percentage of the population is rabidly anti-American. The opportunities for terrorist infiltration is just too great.
It will be a long time before the muslim world earns our trust in any area as sensitive as this. And I’m with many others here that think NO foreign company should be operating our ports. where was Chuckie & Nancy when Clinton was giving ports to the Chinese? The congress should call their bluffs and pass legislation banning any foreign government from doing this.
Hey it must be a good idea…Jimmy Carter says so. LOL
Anyone know if Wolfies has wireless net access? I would love to go, but I have to log in to work for about 15 minutes at 7:00 to make some obscene profits.
#135hamous
Oooops! I knew that! What about a “famous hamous gold star award” for an outstanding or hilariously funny post coming from you?
That would be worth someone shooting for!
Daniel, I have not completely formed an opinion yet. I tend to go with Hamous #138 point #3. I’m still basically of the opinion that all non citizen Muslims who have not been here at least 10 years should be returned to their country of origin. If they’ve been here 9 years and are not a citizen yet, then they have questionable loyalty anyway. Why leave them if they’ve been here 10 years or more? Arbitrary on my part. But if they’ve been here 10 years with no problem, I’d guess they don’t care for Sharia law that much anyway. I would make an exception for anybody who volunteers and successfully serves a 4 year enlistment in the military.
Yes, I too am an Islamaphobe. I’m also a massmurderaphobe, an armedrobberaphobe, and a crookedpoliticianaphobe. I hope Pres. Bush doesn’t wait too long to dismantle the Iranian nuclear capability. But I also think this country will need to suffer a great deal before it rights itself mentally and morally as one people. We’re pretty divided right now.
Long story short, it’s up to the Islamic world to show they can not only live in peace with the non Islamic world, but also within sects of their own religion. I doubt that will happen unless they are influenced much more by Western culture and ideas.
It’s going to be a long long road to peace. Look how long it has taken in Ireland just amongst
Christians. The only other alternative I see is to remove Islam from the world.
duhmoose
#140
heh heh he said “obscene profits”. One slight corrrection if I may. It should be
“OBSCENE PROFITS”
This way the appropriate emphasis is placed on the proper syllable.
Hope you don’t mind.
BTW the Wofies website says yes on the internet access.
140: Yes, Wolfie’s has wireless Internet. Nothin’ but the best for the LST family.
I am NOT bringing my laptop! My blood pressure is under control today (so far)!
Sweet… getting paid to drink beer with my fellow commenters… Ain’t Aemerica great?
i am back must leave soon…
sshhhhhh kid is here, keep it down so he won’t get caught.
Kid hows the EDC project coming along?
149 done; seeding rounds tonight no i am DONE yay now for the compettion
“Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.”
- Dame Edna Everage
#142
Yes..The western world may need to influence them..by splitting atoms! Unfortuntely it seems the only language the hardliners understand!
#141 - “Famous Hamous”
I guess I never really thought about pronunciation, since I’ve had the nickname all my life but Hamous is pronounced like “Ham-us” and not like “Famous”. Taking off on shakey’s nickname of my nickname (you know how “cirular” he can get!) maybe something like “Hammie’s Grammy”.
Good news maybe. Mrs. Sqauwk just notified me that it looks like MAYBE we will make it to Wolfies. Just another hour till we know for sure.
I hope-ah
I hope-ah
I hope-ah
I can’t stand of another night of the Olympics. I need Wolfies and the Wolfettes. Don’t tell Mrs. Squawk I said that.
#154 Squawkie, let me talk to her. I have a way with women. Just ask my ex.
headshaker
#155
It ain’t the Mrs. She wants to go too. The problem is her work place.
Oh yeah and on the ex-wife front been there done that my self.
But you’re lucky squawk. Isn’t your ex-wife and your wife the same person?
THIS WHY I HAVE TO GET OUT. Dick Button just pushes my buttons.
/must resist spewing a plethera of possibly offensive Dick Button jokes.
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Speed Skating, continued
9:30P ET/PT Bobsled, continued
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hamous
#157
Yep, however there another one in the middle in there somewhere. Mrs. Squawk is my first and third wife. I think the woman may be brain damaged. Then again she has mentioned that remarrying me was her contribution to maintaining whirrled peas.
It may be my imagination, but I’d swear the sandscape picture with the tongue hanging out was more pronounced after the picture of the Wolfie’s girls was posted.
138 Hamous
142 Big
“… a large percentage of their population is rabidly anti-American.”
How do you know that? Have you been there? Exactly how many of these “rabidly anti-Americans” do you know. Exactly how much time have you been there?
That’s why I say so many here have been “fear-mongered”. Those comments are thrown out as fact with no “first hand” knowledge.
Big,
Your not a mass murder phobe or an armed robber phobe, your an Islamaphobe because you’ve been fear mongered into it. 9/11 happened and everyone was scared, but, that fear has been put to expert use by the pols. If you were those other phobes, you would talk about them all the time, but, you don’t. And the reason why you shouldn’t be an Islamaphobe is the same reason that you shouldn’t be any of those other phobes, because, no matter the rhetoric that is whipped up to make you vote for one side or the other, the sorry fact, is that Islamic terrorist are not more threatening than either of the other two or drunk driving, etc.
So, gentlemen, get over your fear, get back to rationality, and demand the same of your representatives.
Oh, I don’t know Vic, could it be the hundreds of thousands of marauding muslims all over Europe and the middle east burning American flags and screaming “Death to America”? As a poet better than me said: “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”
“Sudan man forced to ‘marry’ goat”
“They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm
Hamous, have you seen, with your own eyes these 100,000’s of thousands? I doubt it, because they don’t exist.
I’ve seen Anti-American demonstrations with my own eyes. I’ve seen anti-government demonstrations with my own eyes. I’ve seen people get shot at with rubber bullets, and, I’ve never seen “hundreds of thousands” or as I read somewhere else here, I’ve never seen a “billion Muslims who want to kill us and our children”.
This doesn’t exist, yet, people make you think it does b/c it get’s them higher ratings. They make you think it does because it get’s them elected.
I think America, if we don’t let the fearmongers take us the wrong direction, can use our moral capital to convince people to help us beat this small band of extremist. But, our actions up till now have lost us all of the goodwill that existed in the world for us on Sept. 12th. If we’re smart, we’ll analyse the port deal, and, if it’s a good deal, we’ll do it, if not, no, but, we won’t let what boils down to simple racism and (mostly) baseless fear, keep us from doing it.
Heres to traditional republican values. Effective Foriegn Policy. Say no to Racism. Don’t be Afraid. Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Vic, stop being a typical lib and telling me how I feel and what I think. That is so left wing arrogant. If you can’t grasp the concept, just say so. Your analogy is specious (or is that fecious - a word I just made up to make you think?). It’s like saying people should not have been afraid of the Japanese after Pearl Harbor. Never mind what they had done in Nanking in 1937. That’s insane. We have seen what the Islamic world is for the last 35 years. They are brutal tyrants. Quit trying to dress them up as civilized by western standards. They’re not. If you don’t want to see it and continue to bury your head in the sand, then don’t whine when they remove your head and cut it off. Go live under Sharia law for a couple of years with no protection from any government of military. Start by moving to Dafur. If that doesn’t cure you, and least you’ll never get any worse.
Hamous hit it right on the head in #162. We fear them for the actions THEY have taken and FAILED to take. Where is the 442nd equivalent today which is made up of Muslim followers? Where are the mass protests and demonstrations of destruction of mosques by Muslims? Where are the Islamic countries that manufacture cars, jet aircraft, giant tankers, make medical breakthroughs, and in general promote love and kindness? Since WW2, not one Nobel prize in sciences has been awarded to an Islamic scientist who did not primarily work in the West.
Your view or the world will bring about as much reduction in Islamic violence towards Muslims and non Muslims alike as we will get in the way of tax reduction by leaving the same old politicians in Austin and Washington.
Fine Big,
But the fearmongering and bad foreign policy of this administration has just stoked a big fire that wasn’t burning before.
I prefer Reagan’s method. Fund Iraq and Iran, and let them kill each other while buying our antiquated arms in order to do it.
Oh, but, you guys are “nouveau conservatives”, conservative christians, and compationate conservatives who prefer to kill and mame with Shock and Awe, but, fail to understand (maybe due to total lack of foreign experience??) the repurcusions of your actions.
Don’t think that all of us who have been saying this war was a bad decision for a long time haven’t noticed how neocons are now saying, “well, if they can’t get there s**t together, we might just have to leave it up to them”!
Welcome to the party boys, your a little late!
TRADITION!!
#164 - Vic I’m not sure there are any “traditional” republican values anymore, other than those influenced by other institutions.
But you make an excellent and extremly important point -
“….use our moral capital to convince people to help us beat this small band of extremist.”
We will never bomb the terrorist away. And like it or not, the lesson of hearts and minds was a most important one. Perhaps one that the current admin did not fully embrace.
Let’s take a Thomasinian approach to Vic’s objections. Here’s the question:
Is there a large percentage of the muslim population that is rabidly anti-American?
I answer that, a large percentage of the muslim population is indeed rabidly anti-American. How do I know this? Well, lets start with every major new agency in the world, including those that are themselves anti-American, have cameras there and show us the rioters. Second, many of their leaders have been standing before the world and proudly pronouncing that their goal is the destruction of “The Great Satan” and western civilization.
Vic’s Objection 1: Have you seen, with your own eyes these 100,000’s of thousands? I doubt it, because they don’t exist.
Vic’s Objection 2: I’ve never seen “hundreds of thousands” or as I read somewhere else here, I’ve never seen a “billion Muslims who want to kill us and our children”.
On the contrary, Yes, I have seen them, Vic. Continuously since 1979. Unless you’re suggesting there’s some vast conspiracy by the media, a media that is no friend to this administration, to fool the entire world and stage all of the violent demonstrations I’ve witnessed for the last 27 years. If you think that, you better have some proof or you should not expect to get any respect around here.
And Vic, I live in a house. Have you ever seen my house? Becaue you’ve never seen my house doesn’t mean I don’t live in it.
I answer that, all evidence presented by the media and many thousands of others that have traveled to these areas over the last three decades prove that a large percentage of muslims are rabidly anti-American. Its impossible to prove that all of these countries, organizations, and people could be in on some vast conspiracy that they’re all in on and none of us are.
#165/168 - I highly recommend this site:
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=1054&&edition=1&ttl=20060224232229
Hamous if these countries were so full of “Rabid Anti-Americans” how do you explain that companies like Exxon, Chrevron, Anadarko, Haliburton, Global Santa Fe, etc, have been doing business there for these 30 years that you speak of. How do these companies do that if the entire populous of all of these countries in the Middle East are “rabidly anti-American”.
So, you’ve seen pictures of crazy muslim demonstrations on TV. Wow. I’ve seen crazy demonstrations here in the US. I’ve seen “hundreds of thousand’s of crazy people” shooting guns and burning cars aftere their team wins the NBA championship.
We heard in the 60’s during black protests that if they couldn’t get what they wanted, they might be forced to take it. Not all those demonstrations were Ghandiesque peaceful sitins if I recall.
You say, “continuously since 1979″, but, I guess if it was such a big deal to the American people between, say, 1980 and 2000, maybe a presidential candidate might have run on the platform that stated, we’d better do something about these crazy muslims in the middle east. But, we didn’t did we. Not even W.
This is a storm that will pass. We’ll do what’s necessary to control it and it will be controlled, and, since it’s wrong, it will be put down eventually. But, we have a choice. We can be the tough cowboys who talk tough, but, don’t understand what we’re getting ourselves into. Or, we can be the morally superior country who cultivates allies and alliances and uses our superior abilities in surveilance, espionage, and precision attacks to finish this threat. It’s our choice. So far we’ve been making the wrong one and fearmongering is not helping us.
You speak of the Japanese and being afraid of them after Pearl Harbor. As I said before, fear after 9/11 was and is completely normal, but, now we have to get down to business of stopping this terror. And the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.
Here’s one to make you smile.
A man wakes up one morning to find a big a$$ gorilla on his roof. He looks in the Yellow Pages and sure enough, there is an ad, Gorilla Removers.
When the gorilla remover arrives, he gets out of his van with a ladder, a baseball bat, a shotgun and the meanest Pit Bull you’ve ever seen.
The gorilla remover informs the man that he is going to go up on the roof and whack the gorilla with the baseball bat and when he lands on the ground the Pit Bull will grab him by the testicles with a death grip. The gorilla will then be subdued and placed in a cage.
The man asks, “But what is the shotgun for”?
“If the gorilla knocks me off the roof, shoot the dog!”
Sorry for this long post but at this point I think its needed to explain to Vic and Mike S that this is not about Islamophobia, its about pragmatism:
Muslim terrorist attacks since 1981
1981
* October 6: Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic Jihad.
1982
* August 9: Rue des Rosiers, Paris gunning and bombing of Goldenberg restaurant : 6 killed 22 wounded - Fatah - the Revolutionary Council
* September 14: Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Bashir Gemayel and twenty-five others in a car explosion at the Kataeb headquarters.
1983
* April 18: U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon kills 63.
* July 15: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia bombed a Turkish airline counter in the Orly Airport, killing eight people and wounding over 50.
* September 23: Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
* October 23: Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut kills 241 U.S. Marines. 58 French troops from the multinational force are also killed in a separate attack.
1985
* March 8: Car bomb explodes in Beirut, killing 80, injuring 175.
* June 14: TWA Flight 847 hijacking.
* October 7 – October 10: Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer is shot dead.
* November 23: EgyptAir Flight 648 hijacked by Abu Nidal group, flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.
1986
* April 2: TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; four passengers (all of them American), including an infant, are killed.
* April 6: the La Belle discotheque in Berlin, a known hangout for U.S. soldiers, was bombed, killing three and injuring 230 people, for which Libya is held responsible. In retaliation, the US bombs Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon and tries to kill Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi.
* September 5: Pan Am Flight 73, an American civilian airliner, is hijacked; 22 people die when plane is stormed in Karachi, Pakistan.
* December 25: Iraqi Airways Flight 163 is hijacked.
1987
* April 21: Car bomb at bus terminal in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 110
1988
* December 21: Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie. At the time, it was the worst act of terrorism perpetrated against the United States, and among the worst acts of terrorism in European history.
1989
* July 9: Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
* September 19: Suitcase-bomb destroys UTA Flight UT-772 en route to Paris, killing all 171 passengers and crew. Lybian intelligence involved.
1992
* March 17: Israeli Embassy bombing by “Islamic Jihad” in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 29 killed, 242 injured.
1993
* January 25: Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fires an AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. Two died.
* February 26: World Trade Center bombing kills 6 and injures over 1000 people.
* June: Failed New York City landmark bomb plot.
1994
* July 18: Bombing of Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 86 and wounds 300. Generally attributed to Hezbollah acting on behalf of Iran.
* July 19: Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 is bombed, killing 21. Generally attributed to Hezbollah.
* July 26: Israeli Embassy Attack in London and a Jewish charity are car-bombed, wounding 20. Attributed by Britain, Argentina, and Israel to Hezbollah.
* December 11: A small bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. Authorities found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb to test it for his planned terrorist attack.
1995
* July—October: Bombings in France by a GIA unit led by Khaled Kelkal kill seven and injure more than 100.
* November 11: Suicide bombing of army headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 15.
* November 13: Bombing of military compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 7
* November 19: Bombing of Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan kills 19.
1996
* January: In Kizlyar, 350 Chechen militants took 3,000 hostages in a hospital. The attempt to free them kills 65 civilians and soldiers.
* January 31: Central Bank Bombing in Sri Lanka kills 90 and wounds 1,400.
* February 25 - March 4: A series of four suicide bombings in Israel leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within 10 days.
* June 25: Khobar Towers bombing — In all, 19 U.S. servicemen and one Saudi were killed and 372 wounded.
* July 24: Bomb on commuter train in Sri Lanka kills 57.
1997
* February 24: An armed man opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, United States, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the “enemies of Palestine”.
* February 25: Three bus bombs in Urumqi destroy the No. 2, 10, and 44 buses, killing 9.
* November 17: Luxor Massacre – Islamist gunmen attack tourists in Luxor, Egypt, killing 62 people, most of them European and Japanese vacationers.
1998
* January : Wandhama Massacre - 24 Kashmiri Pandits are massacred by Pakistan-backed insurgents in Indian controlled Kashmir city of Wandhama .
* January 25: Bombing of Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy, Sri Lanka kills 17.
* February 25: Serial bombing in Coimbatore, a southern Indian city, which kill at least 61 people.
* August 7: U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000.
1999
* January 3: Gunmen open fire on Shi’a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people injuring 25.
* August 31 – September 22: Russian Apartment Bombings kills about 300 people, leading Russia into Second Chechen War.
* December: Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb US and Israeli tourists in Jordan and pick up 28 suspects as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots
* December 14: Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States–Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots
* December 24: Indian Airlines Flight 814 from Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi, India is hijacked. One passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released.
2000
* Terrorism against Israel in 2000.
* The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.
* German police foil Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot.
* June 8: Stephen Saunders, a British Defense Attaché, was assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November in Athens.
* October 12: USS Cole bombing kills 17 US sailors.
2001
* Terrorism against Israel in 2001.
* February 5: A bomb blast in Moscow’s Byelorusskaya metro station injures 15 people.
* March 24: Twenty people die and 93 are injured in three bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya.
* August 9: A suicide bomber in Jerusalem kills seven and wounds 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing; Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.
* “9/11″: The attacks on September 11 kill almost 3,000 in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
* Paris embassy attack plot foiled.
* October 1: A car bomb explodes near the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly in Srinagar, India killing 35 people and injuring 40 more.
* December 13: Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.
* Jewish Defense League plot to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, foiled.
* December 22: Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb.
2002
* Terrorism against Israel in 2002.
* Singapore embassies attack plot foiled.
* January: Kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl.
* March 27: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 30 and injures 140 during Passover festivities in a hotel in Netanya, Israel in the Netanya suicide attack.
* March 31: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 15 and injures over 40 in Haifa, Israel, in the Matza restaurant massacre.
* April 11: A natural gas truck fitted with explosives is driven into a synagogue in Tunisia by an al-Qaeda member, killing 21 and wounding more than 30 in the Ghriba Synagogue Attack.
* May 8: May 8 Bus Attack in Karachi kills 11 Frenchmen and two Pakistanis.
* May 9: A bomb explosion in Kaspiisk in Dagestan kills at least 42 people and injures 130 or more during Victory Day festivities.
* June 14: Car bomb at US Consulate in Karachi kills 12.
* July 4: An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing 2 Israelis before being killed himself.
* September 25: Two terrorists belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammed group raid the Akshardham temple complex in Ahmedabad, India killing 30 people and injuring many more.
* October 2002: Beltway Sniper Attacks around the Washington metropolitan area kill 10 people and leave the region paranoid for weeks, caused by domestic terrorists.
* October 6: Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen.
* October 12: Bali car bombing of holidaymakers kills 202 people, mostly Western tourists and local Balinese hospitality staff.
* October 17: Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines kill six and wounds about 150.
* October 18: A bus bomb in Manila kills three people and wounds 22.
* October 19: A car bomb explodes outside a McDonald’s Corp. restaurant in Moscow, killing one person and wounding five.
* October 23: Moscow theater hostage crisis begins; 120 hostages and 40 terrorists killed in rescue three days later.
* November 28: Kenyan hotel bombing.
* December 27: The truck bombing of the Chechen parliament in Grozny kills 83 people.
2003
* Terrorism against Israel in 2003.
* Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2003.
* February 7: Car bomb kills 36 and injures 150 at the El Nogal nightclub in Bogotá, Colombia; FARC rebels are blamed.
* March 4: Bomb attack in an airport in Davao kills 21.
* May 12: Bombings of United States expatriate housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160 in the Riyadh Compound Bombings. Al-Qaeda blamed.
* May 12: A truck bomb attack on a government building in the Chechen town of Znamenskoye kills 59.
* May 14: As many as 16 die in a suicide bombing at a religious festival in southeastern Chechnya.
* May 16: Casablanca Attacks by 12 bombers on five “Western and Jewish” targets in Casablanca, Morocco leaves 41 dead and over 100 injured. Attack attributed to a Moroccan al-Qaeda-linked group.
* July 5: 15 people die and 40 are injured in bomb attacks at a rock festival in Moscow.
* August 1: An explosion at the Russian hospital in Mozdok in North Ossetia kills at least 50 people and injures 76.
* August 19: Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 22 people (including the top UN representative Sergio Vieira de Mello) and wounds over 100.
* August 25: At least 48 people were killed and 150 injured in two blasts in south Mumbai - one near the Gateway of India at the other at the Zaveri Bazaar.
* September 3: A bomb blast on a passenger train near Kislovodsk in southern Russia kills seven people and injures 90.
* October 4: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 21 and wounds 51 in a Haifa restaurant in the Maxim restaurant massacre.
* October 15: A bomb is detonated by Palestinians against a US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip, killing three Americans.
* November 15 and November 20: Truck bombs go off at two synagogues, the British Consulate, and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 57 and wounding 700 in the 2003 Istanbul Bombings.
* December 5: Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia
* December 9: A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds at least 11.
2004
* Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2004.
* Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2004.
* February 6: Bomb on Moscow Metro kills 41.
* February 27: Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing 116.
* March 2: Ashoura Massacre: Suicide bombings at Shia holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than 500 during the Ashura.
* March 2: Attack on procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan kills 43 and wounds 160. (See also: Ashoura Massacre in Iraq.)
* March 9: Attack of Istanbul restaurant in Turkey.
* March 11: Coordinated bombing of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, kills 191 people and injures more than 1,500.
* April 21: Bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills five.
* May 1: 2004 Yanbu attack kills six Westerners and a Saudi in Saudi Arabia.
* May 29: Al-Khobar massacres, in which Islamic militants kill 22 people at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia.
* August 24: Russian airplane bombings kill 90.
* August 31: A blast near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow, caused by a suicide bomber, kills 10 people and injures 33.
* September 1 – 3: Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia, results in 344 dead.
* September 9: Jakarta embassy bombing, in which the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia was bombed, killing eight people.
* October 7: Sinai bombings: Three car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 34 and wounding 171, many of them Israeli and other foreign tourists.
* December 6: Suspected al Qaeda-linked group attacks U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing five local employees.
* December 12: A bombing at the Christmas market in General Santos, Philippines, kills 15.
2005
The wreckage of a London bus, following the July 7 attacks.
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The wreckage of a London bus, following the July 7 attacks.
* Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2005.
* February 14: A car bomb kills former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 20 others in Beirut. See also: 2005 Lebanon bombings.
* February 25: A suicide bomber in Tel Aviv kills five Israelis and undermines a weeks-old truce between the two sides.
* March 19: Car bomb attack on theatre in Doha, Qatar, kills one Briton and wounds 12 others.
* April: April 2005 terrorist attacks in Cairo – On April 7 a suicide bomber blows himself up in Cairo’s Khan al Khalili market, killing three foreign tourists and wounding 17 others. In two further attacks on April 30, suspected accomplices detonate a bomb and spray a tourist coach with gunfire.
* May 7: Multiple bomb explosions across Myanmar’s capital Rangoon kill 19 and injures 160.
* June 1: A suicide bomber blows up in a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing 20 people.
* June 12: Bombs explode in the Iranian cities of Ahvaz and Tehran, leaving 10 dead and 80 wounded days before the Iranian presidential election.
* July 5: 2005 Terrorist attack on Ayodhya – Six terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba storm the Ayodhya Ram Janmbhomi complex in India. Before the terrorists could reach the main disputed site, they were shot down by Indian security forces. One devotee and two policemen were injured.
* July 7: 7 July 2005 London bombings – Bombs explode on one double-decker bus and three London Underground trains, killing 56 people and injuring over 700, occurring on the first day of the 31st G8 Conference. The attacks are believed by many to be the first suicide bombings in Western Europe.
* July 12: Islamic Jihad takes responsibility for a suicide bombing in Netanya, Israel, which kills five people at a shopping mall.
* July 21: 21 July 2005 London bombings - Small explosions in three London Underground stations and one double-decker bus. This was pronounced as a “major incident” rather than an attack, and only minor injuries were reported. These 4 bombs were designed to cause as much damage as the 7 July 2005 London bombings, but the explosives had deteriorated and failed to detonate.
* July 23: Sharm el-Sheikh bombings – Car bombs explode at tourist sites in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing at least 88 and wounding more than 100.
* August 4: Jewish settler in an IDF uniform opens fire on a bus in Shfaram, Israel, killing 4 Israeli Arabs and wounding 5.
* August 17: 17 August 2005 Bangladesh bombings: Around 100 homemade bombs explode in 58 different locations in Bangladesh, killing two and wounding 100.
* October 1: A series of explosions occurs in resort areas of Jimabaran Beach and Kuta in Bali, Indonesia.
* October 13: A large group of Chechen rebels launched coordinated attacks on Russian federal buildings, local police stations, and the airport in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria. At least 137 people, including 92 rebels, were killed.
* October 15: Two bombs exploded at a shopping mall in Ahvaz, Khuzestan in Iran. Six people died and over 100 were injured.
* October 24: Multiple car bombs explode outside the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 11. It is thought that the attacks were targeting journalists inside the Palestine Hotel and the Sheraton Ishtar. [5]
* October 26: A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates a bomb near a falafel stand in Hadera, Israel that kills himself and six others. Twenty-six people were also wounded. [6]
* October 29: Multiple bomb blasts hit markets in New Delhi, India, leaving at least 61 dead and more than 200 injured.
* November 9: Three explosions at hotels in Amman, Jordan, leave at least 60 dead and 120 wounded.
* December 5: A suicide bomb attack kills at least five people in Netanya in north-western Israel.
2006
* Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2006.
* Al Askari Mosque bombing ignites sectarian strife in Iraq.
We’re done talking Vic.
Nice list Hamous,
I’m not going to bother counting the dead. Without going through the exercise, I’m fairly confident is saying that I doubt it adds up to the amount of deaths caused by drunk driving in the United States alone in just one year. Not 25.
Keep talking Hamous. But, please, stop being afraid.
You keep using that stupid drunk driving comparison Vic. The difference, for the 100th time, is that drunk drivers don’t leave their house saying “I’m gonna kill as many women and children as possible tonight.” Drunk driving is a law enforcement issue. We catch them, they go to jail. Drunk driving deaths has decreased steadily. We are in a WAR Vic. You choose not to acknowledge that. And quit trying to portray me as being afraid. Fear is not a part of this. These terrorists don’t want to live peacefully with us! THEY WANT US DEAD. You just don’t get it. But just go along your merry way, Vic and know that despite appeasers like you, we will protect our country and way of life so you’ll be able to keep on living with your head intact.
Beyond the exagerations in the list (4,000 injured in two Embassy atacks, that’s alot of people to have at an embassy. But, I doubt Hamous has ever been to an Embassy) the list just shows me that it is fruitless to think that we are going to stop this kind of attack with war. Unless we’re willing to go all the way. Big Nukes in multiple middleeastern locals? Are we up for it? Are we that “tough”? Are we that stupid? You don’t go blowing up the neighborhood because your murdererphobic or armedrobberphobic. Unless your stupid
“You don’t go blowing up the neighborhood because your murdererphobic or armedrobberphobic.”
Nope, but I don’t invite them into my house to babysit my children, either.
LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS, Vic, NOT WAR.
You’ll protect this country Hamous? Are you in Iraq or Afganistan? That’s my problem here. Alot of tough talk, not much action.
I’m not even in the military, but I go where most Americans won’t because that’s the job I’ve chosen to do. When I understand that that is what you do, I’ll just assume that, like so many others, you like to talk alot, pull up alot of statistics, and sit on a computer in the confort of your own home and “contribute to the war effort” in other ways.
I’m out in the world. I give people a good example of Traditional American Values every day.
When you prove to me that your out on the front lines taking it for me, then I’ll say thank you for keeping my head intact. Until that time, I’ll just assume that I’m thanked for going to the places that you read about in newspapers and websites.
Ok, now the true Vic comes out. I knew the old “Chickenhawk” defense was lurking out there, with your subtle “neocon” references, etc. You know absolutely nothing about me and somehow you’ve come up with a description of my life. You’re not from this planet, are you Vic? But now I can say seriously, we are done talking.
Ok,
I guess that means I won. Again.
Thanks
Oh, and, absolutely, the whole chickenhawk thing, the drunk driving example, the fear and fearmongering. It’s always the same, because I don’t change. My arguements won’t change, and, I haven’t been persuaded (in this particular arguement) that my ideas are in error.
But, when the situation merits (as this UAE port deal did) I will, once again, raise my ugly head and try to convince the crowd here that there is another path. The tough talking, cowboy, warmongering while we sit at home and drink gin and tonics solution to this problem is not the only way. And letting our government scare us into hating people that we don’t even know is not, in my opinion, the American way.
And, Hamous, you are correct, I know absolutely nothing about you. For all I know, you might be the biggest, baddest warrior the armed forces has ever seen. But, from your comments, that’s just not the description that comes to mind.
I am, however, a very traditional republican who has never voted for George W Bush in my life. Reagan, GHWB yes. W no.
Gotta book for you Vic:
http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385518277
Well hells bells!
It looks like the political fallout has given GW a change of heart!
It looks like America wins this one!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060225/ap_on_go_pr_wh/ports_security
The people still may have a voice!
Ha!
I guess the shakester was true to his Ginger Ale pledge. Did they figure out who you were last night?
What happened to the Jon Lindsey thread?
The shakester was trying to be secretive about his identity, but we all figured him out. I didn’t see him drinking any beer, so I think he is a Headshaker of his word. I took an Irish stout pledge and also am a man of my word.
Everybodies up pretty early considering a big bar blogging bruhaha.
Recalling my bartending days, the idea of being sober around a bunch of drinkers does not appeal to me.
So what happened to the Lindsey thread?
Legal action, maybe?
Vic,
Nah… just me. No matter how much I drink I can’t sleep in. I’m kinda goofy that way. You did miss some awesome cowbell playing from Smacktle being on the side of the world you’re on. Come to think of it, you might have heard him last night…
It’s below Friday’s open comments
Vic
#187
Wrong, again, Vic - it was a Brew, ha ha!
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