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2005-05-18 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve 2005-05-18 8:48:15 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How about saving us, Richard? What about us? Aren't we worth saving, or do you see us as useless playthings only good for your own gratification!
Asshole!

Posted by Terrified Gerbil 2005-05-18 09:10|| 2005-05-18 09:10|| Front Page Top

#2 dirka dirka..mohammed jihad

Posted by 2b 2005-05-18 10:04|| 2005-05-18 10:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Y'know what? We should just hand the whole world over to the poor. They're doing such a bang-up job with their own lives, let them manage everything.

Posted by BH 2005-05-18 10:29|| 2005-05-18 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 aimed at righting the wrongs of modern humanity. Again the implied premise that the modern world is making things worse. By any objective standard this is false. I could summarize this conference and a hundred others as 'Explaining how, when things get better it really means they are getting worse.'

Posted by phil_b 2005-05-18 10:34|| 2005-05-18 10:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Recommendations will then be presented to political and business leaders gathering for a three-day meeting of the World Economic Forum, beginning on Friday.

Recommendation #1: Money.

Recommendations #2 to #5634: See #1.

Posted by Pappy 2005-05-18 10:52|| 2005-05-18 10:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Why do I have the feeling that if Tibet was ruled by priests again that it would be much like life under the Taliban? That's the trouble with laws "written in heaven", they keep changing unpredictably based on what the current priest beating you with a club thinks.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-05-18 11:03|| 2005-05-18 11:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Desert campaign to save humanity

We are waa-ay ahead of you. That is what the Iraq war is about.

Posted by badanov">badanov 2005-05-18 11:16|| http://www.rkka.org]">[http://www.rkka.org] 2005-05-18 11:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Why is it that when the Arab leadership talks about how Islam is really a religion of peace it is always in english to Western diplomats? The people he should be telling that to is the Cleric's Mufti's and Madrassa's that teach this kind of crap

http://www.memritv.org/

There is a segment of Islam that is a peacfull religion the problem is the islamic version of the Aryian Church is in control and ulike the regular MAJORITY of christian churchs in the west condem or speak out against when faced, the cough "majority" of islam churches cant wont or dont have the sack to do anything exept tell the western diplomats in english that the majority is good and islam is peacefull but they do nothing to spread that idea at home.

Posted by C-Low 2005-05-18 11:27|| 2005-05-18 11:27|| Front Page Top

#9 probably because you dont know much about Tibetans.

Posted by Glerens Omamp1477 2005-05-18 11:39|| 2005-05-18 11:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Today must be fatuous day.

GO, if you had explained, y'know - made your comment worthy of the bandwidth, you might have become a valued member of the RB University Faculty. But, alas, you didn't and, thus, you're not. Sigh. Goldem opportunities lost, episode googleplex.

Thanx for nuttin'.

Posted by .com 2005-05-18 11:49|| 2005-05-18 11:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah, Richard Gere is a wanker for the most part, and so are a lot fo the people on the bandwagon because its trendy & "counter cultural".

One thing they did get right:

"Terrorism, particularly suicide attacks, are preaching a culture of death."

Aad that is the bottom line: the culture of death, be it in Islam (screaming suicide bombers), or in secular humanism's destruction of the elderly and disabled (euthanasia laws in the Netherlands), is what is at the root of a lot of this. A lack of respect for life, and the subsequent lack of valuing life.

Seriously, Anonymoose - your anti-religious bias/bigotry is showing through again. You're as rigid as a Marxist when it comes to religion.

Do you know anything at all about Tibetan Buddhism?

If you did, you would not have made such an ignorant, lowminded comment.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-05-18 11:52|| 2005-05-18 11:52|| Front Page Top

#12 You never know.

Elie Wiesel and VS Naipaul have been known to depart from the usual PC blather. Weisel refused to join the peace at any price campaign during the 80s and Naipaul has written some withering stuff (mostly descriptive) about islamic culture.

Posted by mhw 2005-05-18 11:54|| 2005-05-18 11:54|| Front Page Top

#13 . . . that is the bottom line: the culture of death, be it in Islam (screaming suicide bombers), or in secular humanism's destruction of the elderly and disabled (euthanasia laws in the Netherlands), is what is at the root of a lot of this. A lack of respect for life, and the subsequent lack of valuing life . . .

Well said, Spook. Well said.

Posted by Mike">Mike 2005-05-18 12:32|| 2005-05-18 12:32|| Front Page Top

#14 I guess I have a lack of respect for life. I want to see the terrorists dead, the people threatening my countrymen dead....

Posted by mmurray821 2005-05-18 12:40|| 2005-05-18 12:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Former US President Bill Clinton is also due to join the conference.

Methinks Bill has finally found himself. He always wanted to be a combination of the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere (genifers, not gerbils, please).

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-05-18 13:13|| 2005-05-18 13:13|| Front Page Top

#16 mmurray: The use of deadly force in defense of innocent life does not demonstrate a lack of respect for life. Coming to the defense of innocent life is not only permissible, it is often required. See, e.g., St. Augustine.

In other words, go kill all the terrorists you like, it's cool.

Posted by Mike">Mike 2005-05-18 13:36|| 2005-05-18 13:36|| Front Page Top

#17 Anonymoose: I suggest you travel over to amazon and type in the dalai lama's name under the book section. Pick any of his works at random and order it. Any one. Once you have read it, pick several others. Then the Buddhist bible(a collection of works, there is no actual "bible"). Then go where you will. Then come back and explain how the buddhists beat people over the head with sticks. Or tell us about a particular war or conflict they have started. Or participated in. At all.

Posted by Weird Al 2005-05-18 13:41|| 2005-05-18 13:41|| Front Page Top

#18 Why do they keep thinking stability is a good thing? Stabilty means a lack of change, and change is what we need in this region

Change threatens their status.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-05-18 13:44|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-05-18 13:44|| Front Page Top

#19 Sweet Mike!

I have a license to kill ........ terrorists

Posted by mmurray821 2005-05-18 13:51|| 2005-05-18 13:51|| Front Page Top

#20 The Dalai Lama came to Austin once. Made me wonder if the Dalai Lama wore Tony Lama's.

Posted by SteveS 2005-05-18 15:09|| 2005-05-18 15:09|| Front Page Top

#21 I don't have documentation for this but I have a quote on a mousepad supposedly by the dali Lama. "If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." I'll research and see if it's legitimate.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-05-18 16:19|| 2005-05-18 16:19|| Front Page Top

#22 You can tell by the way that the Dalai Lama dresses that he's a serious 'nole fan.

Posted by Shipman 2005-05-18 16:33|| 2005-05-18 16:33|| Front Page Top

#23 I'd go to the conference, if it meant I'd be able to explore Petra in peace!

.... What's that? I'd have to attend the meetings and give a paper? Oh. Never mind.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-18 19:21|| 2005-05-18 19:21|| Front Page Top

#24 I thought it he was a UT Tiger fan meself...

Posted by Pappy 2005-05-18 19:47|| 2005-05-18 19:47|| Front Page Top

#25 Why do I have the feeling that if Tibet was ruled by priests again that it would be much like life under the Taliban?

It's better to keep quiet and be thought an idiot, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Posted by Pappy 2005-05-18 19:49|| 2005-05-18 19:49|| Front Page Top

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