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2011-10-17

Posted by Fred 2011-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Cool. Troll named me personally. It's like a birthday card on Christmas!

Posted by Iblis 2011-10-17 00:16|| 2011-10-17 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 WTF was that all about? I was just hoping to get the latest link to Dawn and find out what's going on in Central Asia.

Uh, must be because I hate Muslims. Or something.

Posted by Secret Master 2011-10-17 00:38|| 2011-10-17 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes, strange, very strange. But at least he or she didn't launch a vicious personal attacks, although I didn't read the entire post.

Posted by Sofa-Soldier 2011-10-17 01:04|| 2011-10-17 01:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Uh, must be because I hate Muslims. Or something.

We're all infidels on this bus.

Posted by SteveS 2011-10-17 01:30|| 2011-10-17 01:30|| Front Page Top

#5 We're all infidels on this bus.

True enough #chuckle#. OTOH what that nitwit doesn't know is that one of my closest friends is, in fact, a Muslim (from India). We've been friends since high school. I've got another pal who is Palestinian. And my family has long-standing (re: per-revolutionary) ties with Iran. I'm frankly rather fond of Persians on a personal, one-on-one level.

It's the politicians, holy men, and fundamentalists of the Muslim world that I mostly have a problem with, not every single person who practices some version of that faith. I actually give a damn what happens in their f-ed up part of the world too. Which is why I treasure Rantburg: the "go to" place to follow what goes on in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Posted by Secret Master 2011-10-17 02:06|| 2011-10-17 02:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Rita Hayworth aka Gilda Mundson Farrell in "Gilda" aka Elsa Bannister in "The Lady from Shanghai" aka Vera Simpson in "Pal Joey" aka
Rusty Parker nicknamed 'Chicken' in "Cover Girl" aka Irena in "Fire Down Below" aka Ann Shankland in "Separate Tables" aka Adelaide Geary in "They Came to Cordura" aka Lili Alfredo in "Circus World" (Died in 1987 at age 68)

A SmorgusGorb

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2011-10-17 02:13|| 2011-10-17 02:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Secret Master Ditto that. I "have a problem with" the same groups. Media just labels everyone the same.

Posted by Dale 2011-10-17 08:29|| 2011-10-17 08:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Sounds like my kinda day. Mills Brothers and several others did some good work with this tune.

Posted by Dale 2011-10-17 08:46|| 2011-10-17 08:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Johnny Mercer came up with the name of the song.
Hoagy was laying on a couch when Mercer came in and said something like "Hoag" you've given me an idea for a new song. Twenty minuets later they had "Lazy Bones" done.

Posted by Dale 2011-10-17 10:25|| 2011-10-17 10:25|| Front Page Top

#10 The part that the disappeared troll can't understand is that we realize that there are perfectly nice and even heroic Moslems in the world, the late Ahmed Shah Masood being the first example that pops to mind.

If you think in terms of jihad against the Crusaders that sort of thing doesn't compute. If you mindlessly hate all Moose Limbs it doesn't compute, either.

Posted by Fred 2011-10-17 11:05|| 2011-10-17 11:05|| Front Page Top

#11 If you think in terms of jihad against the Crusaders that sort of thing doesn't compute. If you mindlessly hate all Moose Limbs it doesn't compute, either.

Which is why we can't just nuke 'em all as tempting as that is.

Er, and thanks for that Lazy Bones thingy, Dale. It was highly entertaining.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-10-17 11:41|| 2011-10-17 11:41|| Front Page Top

#12 As for Hoagy Carmichael, you should include the classic film clips of Hoagy from "To and and to Have Not" with Bogey and Lauren. There are some great bar scenes in that movie...as well as the "you do know how to whistle?" scene...great stuff.

As for the Moslems...I spent three months in Iraq, they are wonderful, generous, and kind people. We stayed up till all hours drinking Scotch and discussing religion and finding common ground of our faith...on the other hand most of the Saudi and Pakistani educated Imans have tilted completely away from the other pillars of faith toward Jihad only. The constant drum beat of jihad and killing the infidel is creating huge problems...of course the Sunnis think Shia are infidels and vice versa.

When Mohammed himself was leading the great expansion, he gave cities the choice of Islam, the Sword or the Book...the Book meaning the Bible or the Torah. It was not until Tamerlane that Islam took an ugly turn...The division over Mohammed's successor also divided Islam.

When you look at Pakistan, you see Moslems killing Moslems over esoteric interpretations of heresy, blastphemy, Sunni vs Shia, and Moslem cults with extreme interpretations of obscure portions of the Quran...Until Islam gets a grip over the extremes of their faith and get back to what made Islam appealing to many converts (other than keeping their heads), the faith will continue to be corrosive and detrimental to their host countries.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-10-17 11:48|| 2011-10-17 11:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Islam appears to be trending the other direction Bill.

Posted by Sofa-Soldier 2011-10-17 12:02|| 2011-10-17 12:02|| Front Page Top

#14 (response moved to an Opinion piece under Home Front Politix. Your responses solicited.)

Posted by lotp 2011-10-17 15:10|| 2011-10-17 15:10|| Front Page Top

#15 Off to the But Thap Pagorba ...

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