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2008-08-26 Europe

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Posted by Fred 2008-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 The Swiss, if you can be cool with Hitler, I'd imagine you could be cool with anyone.

Posted by JitterBug 2008-08-26 01:06|| 2008-08-26 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 I guess we know where Osama and friends like to keep their gold.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-08-26 07:11|| 2008-08-26 07:11|| Front Page Top

#3 I think it's a lovely idea. Let's just put tracers and listening devices on them when they go. Perhaps those cool eyeglasses with the miniature video camera in the temple piece, too, if such actually exist beyond spy movies.

"The only force we have ever had is that of words," Calmy-Rey stressed.
Then why is every adult male citizen required to go in for army training yearly, and keep his weapon ready under the bed? Idiot.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-08-26 07:41|| 2008-08-26 07:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Psst - you can't negotiate with someone who doesn't want to talk to you but just kill you.
Next time, stay at the kids table.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-08-26 08:11|| 2008-08-26 08:11|| Front Page Top

#5 "The only force we have ever had is that of words,"

It was not words and the ability to utter platitudes and bore people to death who made the Swiss pikemen the most feared infantry in the Renaissance.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-08-26 08:55|| 2008-08-26 08:55|| Front Page Top

#6 You know, the Swiss make great cheese and wine, even red wine. And the trains are great.

Posted by Perfesser 2008-08-26 09:15|| 2008-08-26 09:15|| Front Page Top

#7 The Swiss should remember the admonition of the Italian condottieri Carmagnola who cornered them during foray in Milanese territory in the battle of Arbedo, 'men who did not give quarter did not deserve to receive it.'

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-26 09:15|| 2008-08-26 09:15|| Front Page Top

#8 We'd like to talk to him. Let the Swiss convince him to come around and talk. We'll talk him to death.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-08-26 09:36|| 2008-08-26 09:36|| Front Page Top

#9 So what're you waiting for, Micheline?
We'll give you a parachute and a bullhorn and airdrop you into the middle of the Wazoos.
Let us know how you make out.

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-26 11:33|| 2008-08-26 11:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Yeah, we can ask him why he killed all those people in 911. We can start a session on conflict resolution if the donks get elected. I'm sure he will listen. What part of he hates us and wants to kill all westerners don't the Swiss misses get?

Posted by JohnQC 2008-08-26 11:39|| 2008-08-26 11:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Fine, I say let these 'humanitarians' talk to him. Maybe they'll suck all the oxygen out of the air and Osama keels over...

Posted by Raj 2008-08-26 12:20|| 2008-08-26 12:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Actually we could have hilm interacting with the infamous Eliza psyhoanalysis program (private joke between users of Emacs).

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-08-26 12:21|| 2008-08-26 12:21|| Front Page Top

#13 JFM, that's wicked! And i mean that in the most complimentary sense of 'wicked'!

Posted by Querent 2008-08-26 13:01|| 2008-08-26 13:01|| Front Page Top

#14 Even I remember Eliza, JFM, though I'm not sure what an Emac is. She was fun!

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-08-26 14:27|| 2008-08-26 14:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Let her talk.
GPS tracking device not optional.

Posted by European Conservative 2008-08-26 16:40|| 2008-08-26 16:40|| Front Page Top

#16 What did Theo van Gogh say?
"Can't we talk about this?"
See where that got him.

Posted by tipper 2008-08-26 17:43|| 2008-08-26 17:43|| Front Page Top

#17 The snobol version of Eliza?

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-26 23:55|| 2008-08-26 23:55|| Front Page Top

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