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| And today's BS: ACLU's Dr. Jeremy Gunn, tax payer funded Muzzy footbaths |
| 2007-10-09 |
| Gunn, "It is about health and safety" Guess that would be news to the CDC and OSHA Muslim Foot Baths and The ACLU Story aired: Monday, October 08, 2007 Across the country, officials at universities and airports are considering building foot baths to accommodate Muslims who need to wash their feet before prayers. This has raised alarm that constructing the baths with tax dollars favors a particular religion. We talk with the ACLU's Dr. Jeremy Gunn, who tells us why he thinks the practice is constitutional. |
| Posted by:Icerigger |
| #29 You are waaaaaaaaaaaaay to kind, Icerigger. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-09 23:22 |
| #28 No Zen you spelled it right. Picture this. We all know sooner or later some dog is going to drink out of one of these foot baths. Now that day will be darn funny. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-10-09 22:37 |
| #27 Why do we have to spend the cash -- and the space -- to replumb to accomodate their fetishes? Jizya, RC, jizya. I've got their Jizzya, right here. Oops, did I misspell something? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-09 21:28 |
| #26 the nice thing is: if you take a dump in one, they can probably push it through the drain strainer if |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-10-09 21:19 |
| #25 The best way to look at this is that the Muzzy footbaths are similar to condom give aways for prostitutes and needle trade-ins for junkies. It's reprehensible and uses government money but the spread of disease is even worse. And having Muslims wash their feet in the sink cannot be very sanitary for the rest of us. Still, I'd feel better about it if they had a coin operated stall around it the way bathrooms used to defend their toilets. That way they'd eventually pay for the footbath themselves. Of course you know the ACLU would be on that as well. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-10-09 20:50 |
| #24 WOW - worked hard today, missed out. High class snark, nothing to add.....Ima feeling mixed feeelings..... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-10-09 20:41 |
| #23 Isn't this article from awhile back??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-10-09 20:40 |
| #22 I can't force myself to read whatever the ACLU twit barfed up in this instance - does he make a single plausible analogy to any other public accommodation of this sort to any other religion? Not a religious type myself, but I've long been appalled and outraged at the ACLU's jihad to drive religion (er, most religions) from the public square, where it sat quite comfortably as the US built the freest most open society on Earth. When the LA city council has removed a friggin' cross from the city seal - uh, you jackasses, the city's name is, uh, derived from a religious name - at the cost of thousands to the taxpayers, we have to watch this nonsense? The only thing that I cling to for cheer amidst the cowardice and idiocy among normal folk and the pathologies ravaging jackasses like the ACLU is that enough people will be offended and astounded and afraid enough to show up at the polls next year and punish the party most associated with all this noxious silliness. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2007-10-09 20:39 |
| #21 they need to have shorting neon lights in them to look spiffy to mo-man. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-10-09 20:19 |
| #20 Why don't they just carry around sponges? Or wet-knaps? Why do we have to spend the cash -- and the space -- to replumb to accomodate their fetishes? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2007-10-09 20:09 |
| #19 Will the footbaths look anything like the squat toilets so many around the world are accustomed to use? They most certainly will if I get a "shot" at 'em. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-09 18:45 |
| #18 Will the footbaths look anything like the squat toilets so many around the world are accustomed to use? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-10-09 18:36 |
| #17 Twenty-some years ago we discovered an amazing invention for our babies' dirty bottoms - wet wipes. The babies are grown, but we still take the wet wipes all sorts of places (Port-o-lets at JazzFest, for instance). I really do believe they would work just fine for Muslim feet, with a whole lot less cost and effort. And don't give me the "Mohammed didn't have wet wipes" arguement - he didn't have running water either. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-10-09 18:31 |
| #16 Please, bring your footbath over here. I have a deposit to make. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2007-10-09 17:55 |
| #15 Quickest way to stop this is to let all good Christians know that they can use 'em too. The ACLU will shut the program down faster than Rosie O'Donnell can inhale a twinkie. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-10-09 16:50 |
| #14 and next thing ya know we'll have video cameras back in the flippin bathrooms to protect muslim thin skin. In other late breaking reports: Footbath video cameras routinely vandalized all across America. Crowds of thousands gather to cheer wildly. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-09 15:43 |
| #13 As a general rule, I don't litter. But... |
| Posted by: Crusader 2007-10-09 15:41 |
| #12 Just watch ... they'll put a few in and someone will put a Koran in one or something ... and next thing ya know we'll have video cameras back in the flippin bathrooms to protect muslim thin skin. |
| Posted by: Beau 2007-10-09 15:39 |
| #11 Maybe people with athlete's foot should use them too... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-10-09 15:24 |
| #10 Let the friggin ACLU pay for them. I have a Constitutional right to use them as an urinal. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-10-09 15:12 |
| #9 Makes me wanna take up snuff-dippin' again, Zen, dat's for sure! |
| Posted by: BA 2007-10-09 14:33 |
| #8 I'll just add that it's nice to see high quality spitoons make a comeback. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-09 14:15 |
| #7 Can't the Soddies or some other muslim group pay for the footbaths? What! And forego the dhimmi jizya rightfully due them? I don't think so. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-09 14:12 |
| #6 Why not have the Muslims carry buckets that they can fill with water and wash their feet? Why should *I* have to pay for some other religion, when the ACLU and other groups are working around the clock to remove any symbols, even historic ones, of my religion? Can't the Soddies or some other muslim group pay for the footbaths? |
| Posted by: Rambler 2007-10-09 14:04 |
| #5 Good one, tu3031. Now I know where to dispose of my wolf hybrid's dooties. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-09 13:52 |
| #4 Oh, wow, when did they put in dog toilets! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-10-09 13:49 |
| #3 The other sinks have free breath mints. |
| Posted by: Albemarle Gruse9049 2007-10-09 13:33 |
| #2 "Hey, dude, check out the new urinals!" Snark O' The Day™, gold medal contender. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-09 13:26 |
| #1 "Hey, dude, check out the new urinals!" |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-10-09 13:13 |