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Posted by Steve White 2005-08-13 13:08|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Awesome Steyn grab, Steve.

I'll say it: Arab culture sucks, and we should denounce and ridicule their pipsqueak fatwas and pronouncements at the loudest voice possible.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-13 15:57|| 2005-08-13 15:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Frank - luv ya, man. But hear me now and believe me later. In publicity, it's all about focus and there is no such thing as negative ~~publicity~~ focus

When you denouce in the loudest possible voice that your date does not have a big butt - everyone in the room will turn around and wonder if your date's butt is too big.

If someone says your date has a big butt and you tell him he's got a small you-know-what - it's now his you-know-what that is suddenly on trial.

Focus man, focus.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-13 16:07|| 2005-08-13 16:07|| Front Page Top

#3 If I say , lets say for ..uh..discussion's sake only...that my ex-wife is a RAVING lunatic, and all pronouncements coming from her mouth are likely to be lies, or true only in her little universe, then I'm doing my best at defending myself in the battle of ideas. To say Mogadishu culture is as valid and civilized as our own is an out-and-out lie, something that hasn't yet been brought back to bear in Academia and the MSM. There is such a thing as too much negative PR - ask the Saudis...they just figured it out

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-13 16:21|| 2005-08-13 16:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Ok. But if your wife has to defend in the loudest possible voice that she is not a lunatic, then I have to wonder if she is sane.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-13 16:25|| 2005-08-13 16:25|| Front Page Top

#5 wait - that didn't come out right. When I say that I wonder if she is sane, I mean her sanity is up for debate. Before, she was just a wife. Now she is a wife with her sanity in question.

If you walk into a room and say, "my wife is not insane", we will immediately question your wife's sanity.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-13 16:32|| 2005-08-13 16:32|| Front Page Top

#6 ex - and that was a facetious example. I simply meant that in the battle of civilizations, words and ideas matter, and to say that all are equal is false. We shouldn't allow for the "Arab" or "African" seats on the Security Council for the same reason. Either you have a stabilized society that feeds all who are willing to work, or you're Zim-Bob-We. ....that's a judgement I'm willing to make

BTW - her psychiatrist says she's making progress. Since we've been divorced 14 + yrs, I would expect that I am no longer a possible suspect :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-13 16:36|| 2005-08-13 16:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, ok, but I'm still wondering if your wife is sane. The damage is done.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-13 16:50|| 2005-08-13 16:50|| Front Page Top

#8 better question my sanity. She's fine, just dramatic

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-13 16:52|| 2005-08-13 16:52|| Front Page Top

#9 ex-wife

Posted by 2b 2005-08-13 16:52|| 2005-08-13 16:52|| Front Page Top

#10 A number of years ago a wealthy white infiltrated the KKK -- essentially a terrorist organization -- to learn its culture in order to figure out how to best dismantle it. He gave its secret codes, pass words, etc. to a friend who developed television cartoons, and pretty soon, Superman was chasing and destroying the KKK on Saturday's kids cartoons. That one act (resulting in making KKK members look ridiculous and bad to their children) apparently caused KKK membership to rapidly shrivel and contributed to its eventual demise.

Posted by kclark8 2005-08-13 16:53|| 2005-08-13 16:53|| Front Page Top

#11 but that's my point! Your wife's (or ex's) sanity is now the question. You put it in focus. It never occured to me before. Heck ..I never even though about you being single, married or divorced. The more you tell me she's sane, the more I have to wonder if she is crazy.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-13 16:56|| 2005-08-13 16:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Ok..I'm sorry Frank. I'm being over zealous in my point. I know if you have a wife - she's probably really nice. Sometimes I go overboad to make a point. Please forgive.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-13 17:06|| 2005-08-13 17:06|| Front Page Top

#13 whatever.....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-13 17:13|| 2005-08-13 17:13|| Front Page Top

#14 kclark - it's meaningless unless you tell us which cartoon.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-13 17:14|| 2005-08-13 17:14|| Front Page Top

#15 Instead we should have resisted with a gleeful mocking campaign against Islamoparanoia.

I'll hazard a guess that Steyn has been reading Rantburg.

Posted by phil_b 2005-08-13 17:17|| 2005-08-13 17:17|| Front Page Top

#16 If 'Britishness' is a root of things good, explain Zimbabwe.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2005-08-13 17:41|| 2005-08-13 17:41|| Front Page Top

#17 what's left that's British in ~~Rhodesia~~ ZimBobwe? The removal of all that's british has left a nasty brutish starving society, begging for help from outside without willingness to reform. Your point is?

Oh yeah, you forgot, didn't you? Glenmore

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-13 17:48|| 2005-08-13 17:48|| Front Page Top

#18

Instead we should have resisted with a gleeful mocking campaign against Islamoparanoia

I know we're late to the party, but isn't that what we're doing now?

At least at Rantburg, LGF, etc.?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-08-13 17:48|| http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com] 2005-08-13 17:48|| Front Page Top

#19 I think RB was one of the first to the party.

Posted by phil_b 2005-08-13 18:17|| 2005-08-13 18:17|| Front Page Top

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