In Congress, anti-Muslim bigotry gaining a strong foothold
According to U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-NY, more than 80 percent of the mosques in this country are headed by imams who espouse radical Islamic jihad.
Eighty percent. King has offered that estimate in the past, and did so again this week in a radio interview:
King did not claim to have a list of those subversive enemies of American freedom in his suit pocket, as Sen. Joe McCarthy did 60 years ago. But like McCarthy, King does have the chairmanship of a prominent congressional committee, in his case the House Homeland Security Committee. And next month, King’s committee is scheduled to hold public hearings into the alleged disloyalty of the Muslim-American community.
That ought to go so very well, don’t you think?
And then we’ve got U.S. Rep. Allen West, a newly elected Republican from Florida. In a recent interview with a cable TV program called “The Shalom Show,” West was asked a rather odd question about U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat and a Muslim, and he responded with an equally odd answer (The interchange begins at 1:47 in the video below):
Interviewer Richard Peritz: “Since you’re with a new crowd, people you haven’t really met before and will be very closely associated with in the future, including Keith Ellison, who supports Islam. How will you manage that, if I may ask? Because it’s not really easy to be that … polite, often, with individuals one totally disagrees with, which I believe may be the case.”
Rep. West: “I think it’s most important that I stand upon the principles that people elected me to go to Washington DC and represent them on Capitol Hill. So that when you run into someone that is counter or someone that really does represent the antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established, you got to be able to defeat them intellectually and in debate and discourse.”
It really is astounding. Is it possible to be polite to a Muslim-American? Does Ellison, by the mere fact of being a Muslim, “represent the antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established?”
Or is that all just vile, ugly bigotry spouted by men wearing nice suits?
– Jay Bookman
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Big D
January 25th, 2011
3:56 pm
Bosch…that was just sad.
LHU….D Rep. Jim Clybern
D Rep. Bob Brady
D Rep. Anna Eshoo
Paul…Most don’t/can’t.
jm
January 25th, 2011
3:56 pm
I wonder if Obama will opine on the APS or Dekalb school board issues tonight…. or maybe the dysfunctional Gwinnett County Commission. Or Clayton county which is FUBAR in every facet.
Maybe he’ll talk about the Beltline. Or he’ll take issue with Jay’s criticism of his administration…. wait.
jewcowboy
January 25th, 2011
3:56 pm
jm,
“Given that…. Atlantans seem to have difficulty driving in the rain.”
My you give them credit…to me it seems most Atlantans have difficulty driving…period.
Joe the paleo-neo-Plutocrat
January 25th, 2011
3:56 pm
kayaker71, as I said, my familiarity is via written accounts, and a few “war stories” from vets. but it was my understanding, a “fresh/inexperienced” solider in country for the first time was a “cherry”. but I do agree, West’s inability to respond in a manner becoming of a memeber of Congress, could be dismissed as “inexperience”.
Paul
January 25th, 2011
3:58 pm
Big D
I personally think Republicans were better off when they had more mods and libs. And Dems were better off when thy had more Blue Dogs.
And the country was better off, too -
Dusty
January 25th, 2011
3:58 pm
SoCo,
I don’t think Scout knows “everything”. But he surely knows more than Bookman who is ready to judge at a moments notice on the basis of statements from TWO congressmen.
Normal,
We are all aware that you feel no need for religion. but you seem to need to incriminate those who have it. and usually without any evidence whatsoever.
If the FBI, etc. are investigating that list of religious groups that you mentioned, they are wasting their time.
Maybe they would like to investigate what Lutherans sent to Haiti last year. Lutheran World Relief raised more than $7 million for a long term response. From their central warehouse to which all Lutheran churches send items, here’s the list of supplies from the first year: 25,545 quilts (homemade), 77,585 health kits, 2500 layettes, 35,700 school kits, 39 large tents, 17,500 tarps and $1.1 million to local partners to provide food, water, sanitation services and shelter.
Now that is what just one Christian denomination has done. I am sure other groups can equal that. That is what is being done now. not some historical thing of long ago. My point? Quit knocking a good thing just because you don’t have it. That would be nice!
chuck
January 25th, 2011
3:59 pm
Wouldn’t the CHAIR of the homeland security committee have access to the data concerning the mosques? I would think that an intrepid reporter like the Great Jay Bookman could pick up a PHONE and call his office and ask where the data came from? Please enlighten us.
Lord Help Us
January 25th, 2011
3:59 pm
‘LHU….D Rep. Jim Clybern
D Rep. Bob Brady
D Rep. Anna Eshoo’
What is the wild world of sports is this? 3 Dem Lawmakers…
Are you inferring that these three dems are sponsors of the Fairness Doctrine?
What is the name/number of the legislation? How many hearings have been held?
Simple questions…
AmVet
January 25th, 2011
3:59 pm
First S. King of Iowa misusing the word mendacity. (But in an a ironic and unwittingly truthful way, as he was referring to his party’s “leadership”!)
And now S. King of NY puking up an 80% figure. (I’d be shocked if it was even 8%)
Brought to you by your friends at the Republican Bookstore of Made Up Definitions and Facts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kz7YUdy-Cg
Big D
January 25th, 2011
4:01 pm
Paul… this country is financially and morally bankrupt and it is going to take some very drastic measures to correct it and liberalism is NOT the answer…period, it is the problem.
josef nix
January 25th, 2011
4:01 pm
PAUL
Quite frankly, I’ve given up on trying to get the yahoo know-it-alls to grasp the concept of the culture in which a particular religious faith is the predminant. The idea that the same concept applied to Turkey being a “Muslim country” applies to the United States being a “Christian country” simply is lost on those with an axe to grind with the majority faith of their cultural weltanschauung. And the ignorance is just as prevalent on the left as it is the right. The Crusades reflected a conflict of cultural world views and neither side was any “better” than the other when it came to “kill ‘em all and let G-d (All-h) sort ‘em out…”
Old Flat Top
January 25th, 2011
4:02 pm
“Okay wingnuts, I’m waiting on the answer to the poster who asked what we were to do about Isam, ban it? Make it illegal? Concentration camps?”
Fit all muslims with explodable dog-collars and then micro-chip them…
Then send them to Gitmo for some motivational training a la “clockwork orange”.
And yes….I did cheer at the end of “Easy Rider”.
godless heathen
January 25th, 2011
4:02 pm
“A future in which Islam and the West do not stand on the brink of mutual annihilation is a future in which most Muslims have learned to ignore most of their canon, just as most Christians have learned to do. Such a transformation is by no means guaranteed to occur, however, given the tenets of Islam.” – The End of Faith – Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris.
Bosch
January 25th, 2011
4:04 pm
Hello? Blog God?
Big D
January 25th, 2011
4:05 pm
LHU…you are like trying to stack greasy beebees …my statement was that the LIBERALS were now calling for a return to the Fairness doctrine are ya stupid. Did I say once that there was pending legislation..no..you made that up. Just can’t do it can you.
Kamchak
January 25th, 2011
4:05 pm
Hey AmVet
Harry Callahan next door at CT’s keeps insisting that you and I are the same person.
I thanked him for the compliment, then he insisted that Mary Elizabeth was also involved somehow.
USMC dawg
January 25th, 2011
4:05 pm
Obama to seek 5 year SPENDING FREEZE(with caveats of course):
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/sc-dc-0126-address-main-web-20110125,0,6024545.story
barking frog
January 25th, 2011
4:05 pm
Anyone got a body count? Christians. Moslems. Jews. Hindus. Buddhists.
Do any of these actually do the killing? Do the killers pretend to embrace
one of the religions rather than follow its precepts? Who can we hate next?
Mexicans. That should work. We can invade them. They will be waiting with
open arms.
jm
January 25th, 2011
4:06 pm
jewcowboy 3:56 – indeed. I find “out of towners” or new residents (with out of state tags) to be the worst. But you’re right. I pray for mass transit. Simply so I won’t have to contend with the complete morons on our roads….
pat
January 25th, 2011
4:06 pm
Interesting how a thread on islamic bigotry spurs so much hatred and bigotry towards Christians. I supposed it’s ok to insult and berate Christians, that’s not bigorty.
AmVet
January 25th, 2011
4:07 pm
And to Road’s point at 2:24, and as I have observed before.
A few decades ago it was blacks and Jews who were despised by the conservatives like the scumbag Old Flat Top.
Now it is gays, Mexicans and Muslims.
Yes, the faces have changed, but the same paranoid, irrational hatred remains the same.
Fortunately men of conscience have made it MUCH more difficult for the repugnant, hate-filled right-wingers to murder and get away with it…
kayaker 71
January 25th, 2011
4:07 pm
Joe,
If you meant that West’s response was one of inexperience and can be forgiven due to his lack Congressional experience, you are dead wrong. His constituents in Florida’s 22 district must have liked what he had to say, as he reiterated it more than once on the campaign trail. He has first hand experience with dealing with radical Islam in a way that let political correctness get in the way and he was fired for it. There are a lot of us out there that believe him. BTW, the Congressman that Bookman is berating for his Muslim opinion was just echoing what Shiek Obani (sp) was saying and agreeing with him. One of their own made the original statement in 1999. Wonder how much worse it is today?
jm
January 25th, 2011
4:08 pm
USMC – he’s trying to avoid the Republican cuts. I think a compromise of “cut $30B’s and freeze” would be an a-ok compromise.
Lord Help Us
January 25th, 2011
4:08 pm
‘Did I say once that there was pending legislation..no’
In other words…you got nuthin…
Any other red herrings I can help you out with?
Bosch
January 25th, 2011
4:08 pm
jewcowboy,
I’m thinking this:
http://www.drunkpeople.org/drunk-guy-yoga/
AmVet
January 25th, 2011
4:09 pm
Bother Kam, poor Hairy Calloused Hands needs an entire team of doctors.
Bosch
January 25th, 2011
4:10 pm
“LIBERALS were now calling for a return to the Fairness doctrine are ya stupid”
Um, no they aren’t
Paul
January 25th, 2011
4:10 pm
josef nix
It IS challenging, isn’t it?
godless heathen
““A future in which Islam and the West do not stand on the brink of mutual annihilation is a future in which most Muslims have learned to ignore most of their canon, just as most Christians have learned to do.:\”
Some would argue that, rather than having learned to ignore most of their canon, they have finally learned what the religion truly means and requires.
______________________________________________________
Kamchak, AmVet and Mary Elizabeth.
Funny, House last night was about a guy who got in trouble with a threesome, too!
Tommy Maddox
January 25th, 2011
4:11 pm
“men of conscience”? Oh brother.
josef nix
January 25th, 2011
4:12 pm
PAT
@ 4:06
Point. But try and tell them that.
frog
I keep trying to nominate the ragpickers…
Big D
January 25th, 2011
4:12 pm
OFT…my answer is “are you with us or against us” to Islam. It is they who have declared war on us, it is we who have responded right or wrong. War is the apex of insanity and the one who wins will be the one who is willing to get the most crazy.
Big D
January 25th, 2011
4:12 pm
Bosch…UM…yes they are.
jm
January 25th, 2011
4:13 pm
What President Obama needs to do tonight
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48135.html
I wonder how many of these “what Obama needs to do” columns get written. There must be 20 or so of these out there. They’re so stupid. As if Obama gives a —- about what they write.
Paul
January 25th, 2011
4:13 pm
Big D
And if we’d just get out of there then maybe they’d turn their attention back on their own region’s regimes and we’ll see how well that works out for them.
Bosch
January 25th, 2011
4:13 pm
Big D,
“my answer is “are you with us or against us” to Islam”
You do realize that is actually a question to Islam, right?
StJ
January 25th, 2011
4:14 pm
When Rep. West said “when you run into someone that is counter or someone that really does represent the antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established, you got to be able to defeat them intellectually and in debate and discourse”, I’m sure he was referring to liberalism and not religion (although religion was mentioned in the question). Answered out of context of the question?
Bosch
January 25th, 2011
4:14 pm
Big D.,
“Bosch…UM…yes they are.”
Who is THEY?
Big D
January 25th, 2011
4:15 pm
LHU…
Thanks for your involvement today in how to prove a Liberal can completely miss the point.
You and Bosch both get the Gold Stars.
josef nix
January 25th, 2011
4:15 pm
PAUL
And the worst part is, they never seem to grasp the conflict and it comes down to a “do as I say and not as I do.” They come down on, say Scout, with whom I’ve had more than one respectful set-to, and then throw out EXACTLY the same ignorant vitriol they accuse him of. If it weren’t so dangerous, it would be funny…
Big D
January 25th, 2011
4:16 pm
Bosch…my 3:56 just to name a few….you don’t out of this blog much do you.
jm
January 25th, 2011
4:16 pm
Jay, I gotta say, I used to take an interest in these speeches (SOTU). But not anymore. Most of it is fluff, and that portion that isn’t, is unlikely to happen anyway. All talk. No substance. As others have said, may be time to end the State of the Union and just have the POTUS send Congress a report.
Lord Help Us
January 25th, 2011
4:17 pm
‘Thanks for your involvement today in how to prove a Liberal can completely miss the point.’
You had a ‘point?’
It better have had nothing to do with my goat…
Old Flat Top
January 25th, 2011
4:17 pm
And Round up AmVet too.
With his hippie music, I think he’s on the pot.
Bosch
January 25th, 2011
4:18 pm
Big D.,
The thing is….that claim about the Fairness Doctrine has been made so many times, and debunked even more…..one of two people mentioning it does not warrant an
“OH MY GOD THE LIBERALS ARE GONNA THROW OUT THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE”
Adam
January 25th, 2011
4:19 pm
We don’t need the fairness doctrine. We do, however, need less of this talk of shooting each other and blowing each other up. And calling each other Nazis and so on. Name calling and threats and calling people “enemies” is a bad idea and doesn’t lead to progress, only to more of the same.
Big D
January 25th, 2011
4:20 pm
Paul..I agree to a point. I was one of those young men who did two tours where he really didn’t want to be and I would love more than anything to get everyone of those men out of there today. Problem is these “Islamic” believers will just get bored with killing each other and come after us again.
Bosch
January 25th, 2011
4:20 pm
And when I write, “throw out” — it was meant as in “put it on the table”
jm
January 25th, 2011
4:20 pm
boooooyah. Obama is in deep doodoo.
But Obama’s aides say the speech won’t be heavy on numbers – for instance, he’s unlikely to put a $50 billion price tag on the transportation projects, like he did during a Labor Day speech last year.
Instead, it’s intended to give Democrats a framework for negotiations heading into the epic showdown over the budget and the debt ceiling that is likely this spring. And here the GOP seems, at first glance to hold powerful leverage: Recent polls show a majority of Americans opposed to raising the debt limit without significant spending cuts.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48135.html#ixzz1C5HpTQ37
People have no idea how hard it is to close the deficit without drastically changing entitlements. And they’re against tax increases and against a debt ceiling increase.
Obama is so FUBAR, I just have to laugh.
kayaker 71
January 25th, 2011
4:20 pm
Those F22s that are flying up and down the East and West corridors of this country are sure not protecting us from Catholics and Jews. Think you have to take your shoes off at airports because some Lutheran threatened our security? I don’t know if 80% of mosques in this country are trying to raise jihad funds and train suicide bombers but I do know that is sure isn’t Episcopalians who are doing it. Someone is responsible for organizing cells in this country, raising funds, providing support for dissidents and putting us in the cross hairs and it sure ain’t Sarah Palin or George Soros. Wonder who it could be?
Kamchak
January 25th, 2011
4:21 pm
Problem is these “Islamic” believers will just get bored with killing each other and come after us again.
One if by land, two if by sea!
jm
January 25th, 2011
4:22 pm
The most important area of bipartisan agreement between Obama and Republicans is on Afghanistan, with the GOP likely providing the margin for extending the U.S. commitment in the face of opposition from liberal Democrats. But Obama isn’t likely to highlight that fact. It would antagonize his own progressive, largely anti-war base.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48135.html#ixzz1C5IU2jCA
Adam
January 25th, 2011
4:22 pm
kayaker: Glenn Beck might disagree with you on the funding source. George Soros is the source of all evil to him.
AmVet
January 25th, 2011
4:24 pm
JB, one other thought. To your point about Joe McCarthy, this is perhaps one of the greatest of the innumerable failures of the modern day GOP. In fifty plus years, that sleazebag is still revered by the faithful and remains one of their giants of intellectual thought.
No wonder they are hopelessly _____.
Old Flat Top @4:14, LOL.
Ironic that your moniker is straight out of a song by John Lennon. You, yourself are not a filthy hippie in disguise are you?
heathen, my ongoing point to Scout and other Christian bigots and fanatics is that their religion too had the exact same murderous stranglehold on civilizations. For centuries.
Only when enlightened men of conscience took that power away from them, did the murders, witch burnings and torture finally end.
The same will have to happen with these Muslim fanatics.
And it will…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8LZGQ4MkvQ
Paul
January 25th, 2011
4:24 pm
Old Flat Top
“With his hippie music, I think he’s on the pot.”
“Yo man there ain’t been no hippies around here for centuries,”
(Corporal Jones to Gunny Highway, Heartbreak Ridge)
jm
January 25th, 2011
4:24 pm
How he deals with these issues is vitally important to his 2012 prospects: So far core Democrats have stuck with him, but he can’t show contempt for their concerns, and he needs to offer some promise he will eventually get around to carrying the flag – as he did when he vowed to work on passage of the “don’t ask don’t tell” repeal in last year’s speech.
The list of topics he can’t comfortably discuss is long and getting longer: besides Afghanistan, there’s Guantanamo Bay, his failure to move climate change legislation, his “evolving” position on gay marriage, school vouchers, the state debt crisis and the deficit commission’s hard-to-swallow entitlement and tax reform recommendations.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48135.html#ixzz1C5J0VW3J
I’ll settle for Mitt Romney for President, and Mitch Daniels for VP. 2012. 2012 can’t come soon enough….
@@
January 25th, 2011
4:27 pm
O.K., jay. I found out where the 80% comes from. 80% of U.S. mosques receive their support from Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi sect. If you can prove otherwise, please do.
Freedom House seems like a pretty progressive group:
Freedom House is an independent watchdog organization that supports the expansion of freedom around the world. Freedom House supports democratic change, monitors freedom, and advocates for democracy and human rights.
Since its founding in 1941 by prominent Americans concerned with the mounting threats to peace and democracy, Freedom House has been a vigorous proponent of democratic values and a steadfast opponent of dictatorships of the far left and the far right. Eleanor Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie served as Freedom House’s first honorary co-chairpersons.
Anyhoo, this is what NGO Freedom House has to say about Wahhabism:
Some Wahhabist books and pamphlets teach that Muslims should reject absolutely any non-Muslim ideas and practices, including political ones. A study by the NGO Freedom House found Wahhabi publications in a number of mosques in the United States preaching that Muslims should not only “always oppose” infidels “in every way”, but “hate them for their religion . for Allah’s sake”, that democracy “is responsible for all the horrible wars of the 20th century”, and that Shia and other non-Wahhabi Muslims were infidels.
I’ve got the link to Freedom House. If you want me to bring it, I will, but in all honesty, I think you’ve gotten lazy, jay. You look no further than a Republican to make your case.
Work, jay!!!! Have you forgotten what it is?
Paul
January 25th, 2011
4:28 pm
“With his hippie music, I think he’s on the pot.”
IF he can weave around the party fanatics who so heavily influence the primaries, that is -
Paul
January 25th, 2011
4:29 pm
jm,
ummm, what I meant was…
I’ll settle for Mitt Romney for President
IF he can weave around the party fanatics who so heavily influence the primaries, that is -
josef nix
January 25th, 2011
4:29 pm
@@
Wonder why we haven’t heard from the Bruin on the Hezbollah coup in Lebanon? I guess the memo hasn’t arrived yet. ISH
Big D
January 25th, 2011
4:29 pm
LHU…
I now bow and and thank you once more. I’m sorry you most likely have sheep.
josef nix
January 25th, 2011
4:30 pm
PAUL
Romney? Ain’t he a Mormon?
Abrazos
January 25th, 2011
4:31 pm
It looks like the Republicans are ahead of schedule.
1. Announce they will make “big changes”.
2. First big change: make meaningless gesture by passing “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Act”
3. Follow first meaningless gesture by implying they’re not going to be able to do anything anyway by stating “Republicans don’t run things” (Eric Cantor parroting Haley Barbour)
4. Start throwing up smokescreens and diversions like Peter King’s Muslim investigation, Darrell Issa’s Oversight Committee investigations, Roger Wicker’s Life Begins at Conception bill, etc.
5. Spend next two years driving around in circles like Keystone Cops
6. During 2012 campaign, blame Democrats and Obama when asked about the time they wasted on everything except what really impacts American families’ lives
7. Pack up boxes in Congressional offices and move back to oblivion.
NM
January 25th, 2011
4:32 pm
please check out http://www.islamicsolutions.com/my-log-9-why-they-hate-islam-and-muslims/
jewcowboy
January 25th, 2011
4:32 pm
Bosch @ 4.08,
Bosch
January 25th, 2011
4:33 pm
Paul,
Have you seen this?
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3449461529/
I’m totally breathless with excitment.
josef nix
January 25th, 2011
4:33 pm
PAUL
I’m thinking Cantor and Issa…that ought to set ‘em all to twirlin!
Paul
January 25th, 2011
4:33 pm
josef nix
Yup.
If he can get elected in Massachusetts, I guess they are kinda libs, eh?
Wait, wait…. those guys are all neocons, right?
Hmmm…. maybe we have a truly bipartisan candidate after all!
@@
January 25th, 2011
4:33 pm
josef:
Wonder why we haven’t heard from the Bruin on the Hezbollah coup in Lebanon?
I’m guessing it’s because he’s got his nose imbedded so far up the dems’ “butts” that he can’t see beyond.
You ASKED!!!
(ISH)
Lord Help Us
January 25th, 2011
4:33 pm
‘I’m sorry you most likely have sheep.’
Reminds me of a joke:
Why do Scotsmen where kilts?
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Cause sheep can hear zippers…
Bosch
January 25th, 2011
4:33 pm
jewcowboy,
Well, you should have seen the picture I was gonna post….it was so awesome Blog God ATE it.
jm
January 25th, 2011
4:34 pm
Paul 4:29
Paul
January 25th, 2011
4:35 pm
josef nix
Cantor and Issa? Aaarghhhh….
Then again, Republicans just might love having the richest gazillionaire in Congress on the ticket.
jewcowboy
Earl Grey iced tea? Never considered that, may have to give it a try, thanks -
Bosch
You’ll probably not want to hear I fell asleep during I and II -
DHS, Sub-Department Civility Implementation
January 25th, 2011
4:37 pm
Abrazos
January 25th, 2011
4:31 pm
Please refrain from using the word “killing”.
This is your first warning.
Thank You and…….Carry on.
Jimmy62
January 25th, 2011
4:37 pm
Adam: Considering all the money he took from the British through currency manipulation, if any rich people should be thought of as evil, Soros is one of them. It’s amazing that liberals seem to love the guy. He says the right “liberal” things, but his wealth did not come from actually creating or producing anything, it came from moving money around and taking billions of dollar from the aggregate British populace. There are more poor people in Britain because of Soros.
I guess it’s like the left wing fascination with Che. It’s ok to be oppressive, to murder people who disagree with you, to torture people, to jail people with different politics, as long as your politics are left wing.
Had Che been a free market advocate, and acted the same way otherwise, the left would look back at him as a horrible villain. But since he was a communist, lefties wear Che t-shirts with pride.
jewcowboy
January 25th, 2011
4:37 pm
pat,
“I supposed it’s ok to insult and berate Christians, that’s not bigorty.”
I choose mock all those who worship a Spéir Faerie. An equal opportunity mocker…
jm
January 25th, 2011
4:38 pm
SOTU – I wonder if Obama will comment on the stalled housing development in my neighborhood. Or the new bottle shop going in…. maybe he can comment on what the 2011 Hartsfield security screening procedures will be. Or maybe he’ll compliment a member of our city council. Surely he’ll comment on Mayor Reed. There’s bound to be a long section about Atlanta water rates….
josef nix
January 25th, 2011
4:39 pm
@@
That rapprochement with Damascus is going to be a hard one to do the Levantine two-step around…!
PAUL
unh, hunh, Cantor-Issa done got you to twirlin…
Bosch
January 25th, 2011
4:40 pm
Paul,
“You’ll probably not want to hear I fell asleep during I and II”
WHAT??
Big D
January 25th, 2011
4:40 pm
Dat upity negro Allen West done gone and made dim liberals mad cause he done escaped from da plantation…. usin all dim big words…we just make fun of the material of his suit..dat will teach him.
God forbid Jay that a Black man can be an Officer in the Military, get elected to Congress, have a mind of his own and be a conservative…that must make you want to throw up.
jm
January 25th, 2011
4:40 pm
I wonder why Obama didn’t give the Falcons a pat on the back for a job well done, even though they came up short…
Kamchak
January 25th, 2011
4:40 pm
Well, you should have seen the picture I was gonna post….it was so awesome Blog God ATE it.
A few months ago I tried several time to post links to pictures of Manon Rheaume with the same result.
Del
January 25th, 2011
4:41 pm
Since we’re in the 21st. century it would make sense to focus current events and behaviors. My ancestors haven’t shot any American Indians for several generations. The fact is we’ve had several Islamic jihadist terrorist attacks that have been successful , along with several that have failed. Some of the failures were close calls. I don’t believe King would pull a percentage out of the air, however, I do believe that political correctness would attempt to obscure percentages from the public. It has nothing to do with bigotry. It has everything to do with recognizing a danger and dealing with it.
Jimmy62
January 25th, 2011
4:41 pm
Paul: At least Issa made his money by running a business. He’s a self made man. John Kerry made his by marrying a rich woman. Issa’s money shows he might have some good economic sense. Kerry’s shows that everything he ever had was handed to him. Had John Kerry, former Democratic candidate for President, been born into the same level of wealth as Issa, he’d probably be a janitor now, rather than the life-long beneficiary of left-wing rich people nepotism.
Don’t be dissing on a self-made man like Issa for being rich, he’s accomplished more than you could ever hope to.
jewcowboy
January 25th, 2011
4:41 pm
Paul,
“Earl Grey iced tea? Never considered that, may have to give it a try, thanks -”
My Earl Grey martini is even better…
jm
January 25th, 2011
4:41 pm
When is Obama going to comment on the lawsuit between King and Spalding and the Hawks partnership? Surely that is getting his attention…..
Lord Help Us
January 25th, 2011
4:42 pm
‘God forbid Jay that a Black man can be an Officer in the Military, get elected to Congress, have a mind of his own and be a conservative…that must make you want to throw up.’
You seem to be the only concerned with the man’s race…
Bosch
January 25th, 2011
4:42 pm
Kamchak,
“A few months ago I tried several time to post links to pictures of Manon Rheaume with the same result.”
Well….now THAT I could see…..
Adam
January 25th, 2011
4:43 pm
Jimmy62: I admit to not knowing everything. As such, I have no fascination with Che, someone I know nothing about.
As for Soros, if what you claim is true for both he and Che, then the two are not equivalent and you missed the civility memo.
Where exactly are you getting your info about Soros that you just stated?
jm
January 25th, 2011
4:43 pm
I wonder if Obama has ordered his seeds for the White House organic garden. Surely that’s a top priority…. I assume that will be in the State of the Union.
@@
January 25th, 2011
4:44 pm
Can ANYONE here either confirm or deny that 80% of U.S. mosques are supported by Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi sect? If not, then Rep. King’s claims may not be motivated by bigotry. He, at the very least, deserves the benefit of a doubt.
If you can’t give him that, then I declare you a bunch of Democratic bigots. jay being the biggest among his bunch.
Jimmy62
January 25th, 2011
4:44 pm
Lord Help Us: Interesting you should say that. When I criticize Obama for policy reasons, I’m told I’m a racist. When a black liberal is elected, it’s all wonderful how diverse the left is. But then when a black conservative is elected, all of the sudden the left tells us race shouldn’t be an issue (right before implying he’s an Uncle Tom).
Big D
January 25th, 2011
4:45 pm
LHU…
I can do that…he would not be getting any attention were he not.
jewcowboy
January 25th, 2011
4:45 pm
Bosch,
My mention of Redbull earlier reminded me of this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0BDo5fu3xg
Now think of those stuck without their Canned Cola…yikes.
jm
January 25th, 2011
4:45 pm
Why hasn’t Obama called Arthur Blank to compliment him on a team that has largely stayed out of the headlines, absent the typical unethical behavior?
jm
January 25th, 2011
4:46 pm
I hope Obama will give us an update on his smoking habits. And I wonder how things went on the Hawaii vacation. These are important things….
Adam
January 25th, 2011
4:46 pm
@@: Whether or not it’s bigotry, it’s an absurd claim and very irresponsible. It doesn’t have to be said by a bigot for the bigots not to latch on and issue death threats to their local mosques.
Jimmy62
January 25th, 2011
4:46 pm
Adam: You mentioned him in reference to Beck. It sure sounded like you were saying that he’s not the source of all evil. And he’s not. But he’s done a lot of evil things, but is celebrated on the left because he says the right (left?) things.
Paul
January 25th, 2011
4:47 pm
Bosch
“WHAT??”
I think there might have been more than one pineapple mojito involved….
Jimmy62
“Don’t be dissing on a self-made man like Issa for being rich, he’s accomplished more than you could ever hope to.”
And you were doing so well until you surrendered to your baser self -
Lord Help Us
January 25th, 2011
4:47 pm
‘When I criticize Obama for policy reasons, I’m told I’m a racist.’
By who?
josef nix
January 25th, 2011
4:47 pm
ADAM
I would suggest that you do look into the lives and times of both Soros and Che…do it with an open mind on both counts and draw your own conclusions…