A man gets driven in a motorcade to sneer at a man who has to drive himself to work. A guy who has never generated a dime of wealth, never had to make payroll, never worked at any job other than his own tireless self-promotion literally cannot comprehend that out there beyond the far fringes of the motorcade outriders are people who drive a long distance to jobs whose economic viability is greatly diminished when getting there costs twice as much as the buck-eighty-per-gallon it cost back at the dawn of the Hopeychangey Era.
So what? Your fault. Should have gone to Columbia and Harvard and become a community organizer.
#2
Those new hybrid cars are going to cost a fortune to repair. Rubber gloves, rubber mat, rubber tools, special kill switch for emergency crews to provide assistance. I feel like a dose of Thatcher is in order;
As I wrote last September, when Jones threatened to burn a Koran, the "violence stems from Islamic law, the Sharia, which insists that Islam, and the Koran in particular, enjoy a privileged status." That insistence, which has been asserted in the West since 1989, when Ayatollah Khomeini put an edict on Salman Rushdie for his novel, The Satanic Verses, must not be indulged. Islam is one religion among others, with no claim to superior status. Indeed closing down the claim to Islamic supremacism may be the single greatest challenge to modernizing Islam.
However distasteful, Jones' act is both legal and non-violent. He is not responsible for the 43 deaths; the repugnant, barbaric ideology of Islamism is to blame. When will U.S. politicians realize this basic fact and stand up robustly for the civil liberties of American citizens? Critiquing Islam, tastefully or distastefully done, is a Constitutional right. Indeed, done intelligently it is a civilizational imperative.
#5
Only if we can hold Newsweek, its editors and writer, responsible for the deaths following the bogus 'flushed Koran' story, so we can 'censor' print media. /sarc off
You want to abridge my 1st Amendment rights, we get to abridge yours.
#6
Heathen idolaters need no excuse to act like heathen idolaters. U.S. State Dept. needs to freshen up on reading Robert E. Howard. Oh, I forgot there is now P.C. and their "culture" is equal to ours.
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