[DAWN] World leaders, fellow Republicans, along with “Harry Potter “author J.K. Rowling condemned comments by US presidential hopeful Donald Trump saying Muslims should be barred from entering the United States. British author J.K. Rowling wrote on Twitter that Voldemort, the archvillain of her popular Harry Potter series, “was nowhere near as bad” as Trump. That's a really dumb statement by a really good writer. She invented a character who epitomized Evil. Trump is maybe wrong, but he's not Evil, and probably not even evil. Hyperbole's a poor substitute for just saying "I disagree."
Trump's proposal also drew criticism in France, which had its worst attacks since World War Two on Nov. 13 when shootings and suicide bombings in Paris killed 130 people.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, in a post on Twitter, said “Mr Trump, like others, is feeding hatred and misinformation. Our only enemy is radical Islam.”
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Voldemort enjoyed breaking and killing those he considered beneath him.
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“Mr Trump, like others, is feeding hatred and misinformation. Our only enemy is radical Islam.”
Mainstream Islam i.e. the OIC's political consensus is a version of radical Islam.
There are Muslims who don't support the method called 'terrorism' but who still favor the imposition of a totalitarian theocratic caliphate on the world. These Muslims aren't moderates.
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4 out of 5 British wanted Barack Obama to be President and many contributed illegally to his campaign fund. So much for their political common sense unless their goal is to tear down the USA.
#11
Voldemort directly killed his enemies and attempted to enslave the muggles. Trump wants to close the door on people that want to kill their enemies and enslave the non-Muslims.
#18
To Potterasts, nothing's as tragic
As life when it's lived without magic!
The normal brain boggles
At what I'll call "loggles,"
The nutters that live without logic.
#19
Ok. I think I may have figured out what Trump is up to. The Left is freaking out and calling for his head. That leaves conservatives in a bad position. We don't like Trump, but at the same time we can't let the media claim a scalp. The net of this is to keep Trump in the race -- just as his position in the polls was inexorably eroding.
#21
The media and political elites are totally outmatched and outclassed with Trump. Ted Cruz is the only one who can see this. He is playing them as no other has done before. This will only get better. He is drawing in people from every walk of life in this country. One way or another they will try to take him out. As with Venezuela the left and right refuse to relinquish power.
President of the federal republic of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has announced that his country is the most corrupt nation in the world.
Not that I want to doubt him, but has he ever been to either Pakistain or Zim-bob-we?
Speaking at an event in Mogadishu on Monday, Mr Mohamud said: “the current corruption in Somalia is not only embezzlement and stealing money, but it is disobeying the national law.”
On the other hand, the president has denied a recent report saying that Somalia is the first place, whereby the human rights are being violated.
“1,700 rape cases reported in Somalia. This report is false and baseless. I don’t deny rape is taking place in the country, but the numbers have been exaggerated,” said Somali president.
"Not more than 1500, 1600 tops!"
Somalia is ranked one of the most corrupt countries in the globe, according to Monitoring group reports.
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Not that I want to doubt him, but has he ever been to either Pakistain or Zim-bob-we?
Or Chicago, or New York?
[MONEY.CNN] Two Fox News commentators were suspended on Monday for using profanities while criticizing President B.O. on Monday.
Ralph Peters, a Fox News "strategic analyst," called the president a "total pussy" who "doesn't want to hurt our enemies."
A couple of hours later Stacey Dash, a Fox contributor, said the president "didn't give a shit" about Sunday night's terrorism speech.
"Earlier today, Fox contributors Lt. Col. Ralph Peters and Stacey Dash made comments on different programs that were completely inappropriate and unacceptable for our air," Fox senior executive vice president Bill Shine said.
"Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel do not condone the use of such language, and have suspended both Peters and Dash for two weeks," he said. I agree with the statements, I just don't agree with the language, not for national teevee... Yup. Someone's got to show a little class...
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Ralph could have just quoted Shakespeare:
“A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.” (from All’s Well That Ends Well)
#2
I remember a high school instructor once calmly saying to my unruly class, "Gentlemen, can we have a modicum of decorum now?" rather than saying "Shut the f--k up!" It worked. I admired him for his restraint.
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"Earlier today, Fox contributors Lt. Col. Ralph Peters and Stacey Dash made comments on different programs that were completely inappropriate and unacceptable....,"
#5
We must be raising a bunch of hot-house, delicate pansy types in the media. If one checks out some of the language used by Democrat Harry Truman, one finds him unrestrained in his use of language. For example, he said: "General Douglas MacArthur was a "dumb son of a bitch," and Nixon was "a shifty-eyed goddamned liar."
"I never did give them hell," he once reminisced. "I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell."
Perhaps, if the media and public figures used more colorful language, we might not have gotten saddled with some of the arseholes we have had in the WH.
Personally, I like the straight talk of Peters, Dash and Trump. Enough, already of the tyranny of political correctness.
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The convention, going back to the days of radio, is that interviews and talk shows -- with a few cable and late night exceptions -- are being piped into the living room of your gentle, maiden aunt, and language is to be modified accordingly. I suspect that President Truman, who was most certainly a gentleman of reasonable intelligence, used different vocabulary in public than he did in private. A two week time out will give the parties time to come up with vivid but appropriate terminology for future use.
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[DAWN] World leaders, fellow Republicans, along with “Harry Potter “author J.K. Rowling condemned comments by US presidential hopeful Donald Trump saying Muslims should be barred from entering the United States. British author J.K. Rowling wrote on Twitter that Voldemort, the archvillain of her popular Harry Potter series, “was nowhere near as bad” as Trump.
[MONEY.CNN] Two Fox News commentators were suspended on Monday for using profanities while criticizing 
