Foreign governments with U.S. writers on their payroll?
“A range of mainstream American publications printed paid propaganda for the government of Malaysia, much of it focused on the campaign against a pro-democracy figure there.
The payments to conservative American opinion writers — whose work appeared in outlets from the Huffington Post and San Francisco Examiner to the Washington Times to National Review and RedState — emerged in a filing this week to the Department of Justice. The filing under the Foreign Agent Registration Act outlines a campaign spanning May 2008 to April 2011 and led by Joshua Trevino, a conservative pundit, who received $389,724.70 under the contract and paid smaller sums to a series of conservative writers….
Trevino’s subcontractors included conservative writer Ben Domenech, who made $36,000 from the arrangement, and Rachel Ehrenfeld, the director of the American Center for Democracy, who made $30,000. Seth Mandel, an editor at Commentary, made $5,500. Brad Jackson, writing at the time for RedState, made $24,700. Overall, 10 writers were part of the arrangement.”
You take secret, undisclosed money from a foreign government to write hit pieces in U.S. media against a man, in this case Anwar Ibrahim, who is struggling to bring democracy to his country and was beaten and imprisoned for years for daring to challenge the dictatorial government? (Russia has apparently run similar pay-to-say operations.)
Much of Trevino’s work under the Malaysian contract has been removed by the outlets that published it. But you can get a taste of its amoral quality from this piece that was published as a rebuttal to a Trevino column.
And here’s a Rachel Ehrenfeld piece, condemning Ibrahim for “careless sexual behavior” among other things.
We already know of course that “you can’t believe everything that’s on the Internet.” But paid agents of foreign governments masquerading as American journalists takes things to a dangerous level and says a lot about the character of those involved.
UPDATE: Among those named as receiving money from Malaysia in Trevino’s belated filing as a foreign agent is Christopher Badeaux. Here’s a small sampling of his Malaysia-related work at RedState.com:
“Najib Razak, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, has been on a more or less singular crusade to convince the Muslim world — and the West — that there is a path for moderate Islam in the world, that Islam does not equal terror, and that the taking of a life is contrary to Islam and civilization. His speech at Oxford was of a piece with that….
The salient point here is not whether we agree with the prime minister’s theological assertions, but rather we can appreciate the extraordinary effort he is making here, and the importance for the United States of his efforts.”
And:
In Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of Malaysia’s opposition, has apparently been caught in adultery, with video evidence that Dartmouth scientists say nearly certainly implicates him. The major dailies are calling on him to resign. For three years, after failing to topple the governing party in the 2008 elections, he has crisscrossed the planet telling anyone and everyone who would listen how corrupt and evil the governing party is. And yet despite all of this — despite his stated certainty that his opposition coalition of socialists, Islamists, and yuppie liberals is the only chance his country has to avoid certain doom at the hands of the centrist coalition that has been re-elected time and again in Malaysia, he has refused to resign.”
– Jay Bookman
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barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
4:30 pm
Fred™
Thanks. Seems Jesus is the star, as current belief seems
to be that he was God incarnate, that is o.k., I guess.
Recon 0311 2533
March 3rd, 2013
4:30 pm
Fred, barking frog,
As I understand it, it’s a walk through the Bible beginning with Genesis in the Old Testament through Revelations in the New.
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
4:30 pm
Elite teachers?
Sounds liberal del.
Panic.
Fred ™
March 3rd, 2013
4:31 pm
Well then josef, I think you would enjoy Coursera just to exercise your mind lol.
barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
4:34 pm
Recon 4:30
Ahh…a documentary based on fiction…a novel idea..
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 3rd, 2013
4:34 pm
barking frog:
“0311
Why are you ungrateful and spurn your country’s rewards ?
Other vets cannot get your benefits. The money will just be
given to moochers.”
Let me try to explain it this way.
Many times in my federal career (especially toward the end of the fiscal year) we would run out of money in certain areas including payment for overtime work.
We still had a mission to perform ………. and the overtime hours still had to be worked …….. so did we just not work? No ……… we completed each and every protective mission anyway ………. without pay. That’s just the way it was and guess what ? We didn’t picket on a union line somewhere complaining.
In the same way the V.A. can run out of money. It’s just my small attempt to help out when I can do without.
Believe it or not, like it or not, appreciate it or not ………. I don’t care.
It is what it is.
Now ……………….. I’m going out for dinner. Everyone be nice !!!
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
4:36 pm
frog,
The Bible is fiction like Atlas Shrugged but Americans are free to believe in whatever they want to believe. They have a serious priest problem that needs resolved asap
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 3rd, 2013
4:37 pm
I can’t speak about this series on the Bible, but The History Channel is great.
They had a fantastic series on global warming back in 2007…
barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
4:37 pm
0311
Now ……………….. I’m going out for dinner. Everyone be nice !!!
………………………………………………………………………
Don’t forget to thank them for their service when you leave…
barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
4:40 pm
getalife 4:36
I agree. Hope the new Pope cleans house. They are
trying to deflect to homosexuality to avoid the pedophile
responsibility.
Fred ™
March 3rd, 2013
4:40 pm
Ahh…a documentary based on fiction…a novel idea..
You can no more validate that statement anymore than I can prove it’s false. I for one grow pretty damn tired of the snarky crap that spews forth any time someone mentions Christianity. It grows old. You don’t believe, that fine. It’s your choice. I’m not going to judge you for that nor try to convert you or preach at you.
I would appreciate the same damn courtesy.
Doggone/GA
March 3rd, 2013
4:42 pm
“The Bible is fiction”
And I don’t agree, but I do think it’s history filtered through the times at which the books were written. And remember, the Greek stories were “myths” until excavations started to prove a lot of them to be fact.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 3rd, 2013
4:44 pm
And I can relate to what scout wrote about not using VA benefits.
For over thirty years the VA was not even on my radar.
I had always heard that the VA was horribly run and I wasn’t even sure I was eligible for care with them. (I’ve never posited that I was the smartest guy here! LOL!) And to Scout’s point, I always viewed it as the place for the guys who were getting shot up to get care.
So for all of those decades I dutifully and stupidly gave lots of money to the giant HMO bloodsuckers. And as I was healthy as a horse, I never really used them, to speak of.
Then things changed; even with a $10K deductible my health insurance premiums were a lot. Also, I got terribly sick with blood clots.
So a fellow vet buddy of mine basically dragged me down there to get into the system.
It was then that I learned that they had completely turned that fiasco around. And now, much more often than not, and certainly in my extensive experience, they ROCK!
Uncle Sam is the best, in my book…
TBS
March 3rd, 2013
4:46 pm
Doggone
Not only leading with the chin but a glass chin
They shatter easily and quickly
appleseed
March 3rd, 2013
4:47 pm
Fred you ain’t supposed to judge…Believer.
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
4:47 pm
Frog,
I think gay marriage and marriage are the solutions to their priest problem.
There have been so many Gods through time and too many wars and killings in the name of religion through time.
I still believe religion keeps humans from going back to the dark ages where everything goes so it is a good thing,
Doggone/GA
March 3rd, 2013
4:49 pm
“They shatter easily and quickly”
Yep, that too!
Doggone/GA
March 3rd, 2013
4:50 pm
“I think gay marriage and marriage are the solutions to their priest problem”
Because married people never, ever abuse children? I don’t think so.
josef
March 3rd, 2013
4:50 pm
DEL
It sounds like your system’s gifted and talented program. These are state programs, it’s just that each system gives its own name. Ours is called the Challenge Program. The pull out model is, just my opinion, the best in that it doesn’t “golden ghettoize” the child. Again, a lot depends on the local school environment. In some the attitude is elitist, in others far from it. The teachers are endorsed by the taking of certain courses oriented toward teaching the gifted and not chosen under any other criteria not put on the regular classroom teacher. The curricula and methods operate under a cooperative effort between the classroom teachers and the gifted teacher. The aim is to take the child who has mastered the basic objectives to a more sophisticated application of those same objectives. It provides them with hands-on and laboratory time while the mainstream teacher focuses on the more basic objective mastery.
Our own L’il Girlchild was placed in kinder and went through the program into its objective outcome of early entry in AP coursework in high school. It buttressed our own home expectations and goals and in the school environments where she was, the elitism was there, I won’t deny that, but at the same time it was our duty to teach her as a home value that this carried with it a series of obligations. The boys were not enrolled in such programs, though the older boy was in the similar program for the arts. We worried more about elitism with him and that than we did with her!
Overall, it is a positive thing. I would recommend she enroll. But just make sure you keep a close eye on how she feels about it and that she not see it as class but academic based, the reward for doing well.
TBS
March 3rd, 2013
4:50 pm
Fred
I hear ya about comments regarding Christianity, but a lot of non Christians don’t seem to be afforded much respect either by some on this blog.
It is certainly a two way street as I see it.
barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
4:52 pm
Fred™
Ahh…a documentary based on fiction…a novel idea..
You can no more validate that statement anymore than I can prove it’s false. I for one grow pretty damn tired of the snarky crap that spews forth any time someone mentions Christianity. It grows old. You don’t believe, that fine. It’s your choice. I’m not going to judge you for that nor try to convert you or preach at you.
I would appreciate the same damn courtesy.
………………………………………………………………………………..
I am always damn courteous whether it is deserved of not.
Nor am I preaching or converting as you may believe
but if you want to proselytize Christianity, have at it
it’s your constitutional right. Put it on your sleeve like
many do, but don’t wipe your nose on your sleeve, after
all it is sacred.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 3rd, 2013
4:52 pm
From what I can tell, the Bible is a mash up. And maybe even a cover tune.
Several other great civilizations/religions that preceded it had VERY similar stories. …the creation, the flood, the tower of Babel, the trials of Abraham, even the miracles of Moses are Jewish adaptations of older Pagan myths. Biblical scholars date the earliest of the Old Testament writing around 960 B.C.E. All of the Pagan myths quoted are much, much older.
it served it’s purpose in it’s time, but I think that as man evolves, it will diminish…
http://www.realmagick.com/5014/pagan-roots-of-the-bible/
josef
March 3rd, 2013
4:53 pm
FRED, DOGGONE
And a rousing shout from the amen corner!
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
4:54 pm
“Because married people never, ever abuse children? I don’t think so.”
You can’t change human nature and celibacy failed so what is your solution?
Recon 0311 2533
March 3rd, 2013
4:55 pm
josef,
Thank you for your input. I want her to have what’s best but also want her to enjoy her childhood.
barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
4:57 pm
josef
are you a Christian wannabe ?
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
March 3rd, 2013
4:59 pm
TBS,
I’m one who will “live and let live”. I couldn’t care less what a person chooses to believe or not. My grief comes with the one who is so certain that his is the only way and others be damned. That type of narrow mindedness sorta chafes me. Like it was said in one of the greatest movies ever…”Don’t pizz down my back and tell me it’s raining…”
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:00 pm
Jay, your lies never cease to amaze me. The trolls who reside on your pathetic blog are losers, you bombed at your “state of the real union” at the freak show known as Little 5 Points and you’ve taken several pay cuts at the AJC to stay on staff.
Cheers to your future firing!
Doggone/GA
March 3rd, 2013
5:01 pm
“You can’t change human nature and celibacy failed so what is your solution?”
You can’t change human nature and celibacy failed. There IS no SOLUTION. Just as with the Newtown horror, it’s happened before…it will happen again. To me the abuse of the children, horrible as it was, paled in comparison to the cover up.
If I had the power to do it, the first thing I would do is dismantle the entire power structure of the Catholic church and give the power back to the congregations. What I find particular despicable was the pass that was given to the men who shifted those abusive priests around because “the churcjh” was VASTLY more important to them then mere children.
I have NO doubt the Jesus would be appalled at what was done in his name.
josef
March 3rd, 2013
5:01 pm
TBS
That falls into the kinder playground of “Johnny started it…” imeoiauo
AND OTHERS
Quite frankly, I find much of this discussion to be coming from folks who wouldn’t know literature, poetry, metaphor, and humanistic endeavor to come to terms with the “meaning of it all” if it whapped them upside the head.
As soon as either side goes off on “myth, legend, fairy tale” and/or “word of G-d in errant” I just shake my head. If you made their collective brain and world view into gas it wouldn’t run a p*ssant’s motorcycle around a cheeri-o hole..
Just plumb stump stupid…
And that’s my opinion…and like my anal orifice it is not odiferous…
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
5:01 pm
Hey trooper,
You do know about being a loser don’t you con
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:02 pm
“From what I can tell, the Bible is a mash up.”
Misses JamVet, that’s probably because you’ve never actually read the Bible or spent any time trying to understand it.
Recon 0311 2533
March 3rd, 2013
5:03 pm
Cheers to your future firing
Storm, my conservative beliefs are well known on this blog but I have to say that your above comments are way out of line.
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:04 pm
getalife, a loser is one who spends all day arguing with other people about nonsensical topics like the one Jay wrote. A loser is one who has no life, no family and no friends.
You are the loser. Now go FY.
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:05 pm
Recon, why? If Jay puts up topic after topic slamming the GOP, conservatives, white people etc then I have the right to post my opinion of Jay.
Sorry to have offended you.
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
5:05 pm
trooper,
President Obama 2.
You zero loser.
Good for you too.
barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
5:05 pm
josef 5:01
imeoiuo, speaks more to your uppitiness and snobbery than anything else.
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:07 pm
“The Bible is fiction ”
People who write such things always seem to talk about it. If something is fiction, why discuss it? I think evolution is fiction so therefore I don’t spend 24/7 talking about it.
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
5:07 pm
Josef,
Have to agree with frog.
That was very uppity and snobbery.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 3rd, 2013
5:08 pm
Tick…tick…tick….
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
5:08 pm
trooper,
Crybaby much?
TBS
March 3rd, 2013
5:09 pm
josef
To be honest, I say whatever… You are a fool to thin it isn’t a two way street. I could carless who started it first. It goes on… Period
Corbin
If a Christian wants to bash someone for having a non Christian position, which is done here regularly.. They should expect and be good with a response
That goes for a non Christian bashing a Christian position..
Recon 0311 2533
March 3rd, 2013
5:09 pm
Sorry to have offended you.
You didn’t offend me but you did offend conservatism. Challenge ideology as I and others do, but attacking someone by wishing them ill will doesn’t do justice to our cause.
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:09 pm
“You zero loser.”"
I zero loser? Public education failed you as did your parents.
barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
5:09 pm
getalife
josef should recognize his words from an earlier post.
josef
March 3rd, 2013
5:09 pm
FROG
Why do you ask?
I was brought up and taught by my family that if we wanted someone to respect our beliefs, then we had to respect theirs. Granddaddy made sure that we went to every type of congregation to learn what they taught and believed. Granny’s corollary whenever we might question their adherence to their specific dogma and doctrines in daily life was, “they’re as good as they know how to be.”
Do I “wannabe” a Christian? There are many things in the teachings of the Christ and in the doctrines and practices of those who call him L-rd that I respect, admire and try to emulate in my own life. It is not my own tradition. There is much I do not agree with in both traditions.
I just don’t think I, or anyone else, has a patent on the truth.
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:11 pm
Recon, how does one offend conservatism? I call em like I see em. Jay consistently bashes white people, Republicans and Christians. I am only returning the favor. He’s an angry old self hating white guy who mocks the south yet chooses to live here. I’ve read his columns for years.
Thanks
TBS
March 3rd, 2013
5:12 pm
And I will 3rd that but hey we all have a right within Jay’s rules to express our opinion… And others have a right to respond
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:12 pm
Folks who say God isn’t real and the Bible is fake sure do spend lots of time talking about them.
Thomas
March 3rd, 2013
5:13 pm
sounds like everyone is about to throw down.
Man your keyboard- it is on!
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
5:13 pm
frog,
Religion always brings conflict.
I am tolerant of all religions.
Whatever makes people act right and happy.
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:14 pm
josef, I like you and you seem to be a reasonable person. Even if I don’t agree with your beliefs. You represent the left well. Wish there were more like you.
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:15 pm
“I am tolerant of all religions.”
Your earlier comments suggest otherwise.
Doggone/GA
March 3rd, 2013
5:15 pm
“Misses JamVet, that’s probably because you’ve never actually read the Bible or spent any time trying to understand it.”
Got proof?
barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
5:16 pm
josef 5:09
just trying to determine the basis of your defense of Christianity
in light of the antagonism between Judaism and Christianity and
if it is a defense of religion in general. Christianity is easily embraced
but difficult to practice.
josef
March 3rd, 2013
5:17 pm
Quite frankly, you can call it uppity and snobbery if you want to. Hit don’t make me no nevermind. Whenever you set out to insult someone else’s beliefs, if it’s snobbery and uppity to come to the defense of the object of venom, then I’ll wear the term with pride.
You can have this discussion without going there and setting out to alienate the other. Once you can do that, you can exchange ideas in the metaphysical without getting trapped in the dogmatic.
Maimonides, my friends, Maimonides…
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:17 pm
“Christianity is easily embraced
but difficult to practice.”
And that’s where grace comes in.
Oscar
March 3rd, 2013
5:17 pm
Reon – I have seen tose gifted programs and AP courses work, and think your daughter would probably like them. It eoulf give her a challenge, let her work with other gifted students, without taking away from her enjoyment but add to it. If done correctly. If not, you can always pull her out it it’s not working.
Oscar
March 3rd, 2013
5:18 pm
would
Doggone/GA
March 3rd, 2013
5:19 pm
“Christianity is easily embraced but difficult to practice.”
I disagree. I do not find it at all difficult to practice. But, having said that, I reject quite a few of the social “sins” that too many people find it hard to follow. Jesus spoke to a people, and at a time, when the vast majority of his audience was illiterate. I see pretty easy and simple rules that he left. It’s when the educated town people got hold of his words and wrote them down, filtered through their own existing beliefs and prejudices that we see difficulty entering the religion.
But the faith? It’s not hard at all to follow.
barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
5:20 pm
Storm Trooper
Folks who say God isn’t real and the Bible is fake sure do spend lots of time talking about them.
……………………………………………………………………………………………
Only in response to Storm Troopers pushing their religion. I have
not read one atheist, agnostic, Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu or any
of the other religions or cults spewing forth their righteousness.
Only Christians.
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
5:21 pm
“Your earlier comments suggest otherwise.”
I don’t do organized religion but live next door to a priest that just welcomed their first child because they are married.
Nice young couple.
TBS
March 3rd, 2013
5:21 pm
Josef
And you will really have some merit on the issue when you call it both ways instead of whining about the “who did it first” issue.
Because you very well know it goes both ways
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:22 pm
” religions or cults spewing forth their righteousness.
Only Christians.”
Guess you missed 9-11 when Islamic radicals flew planes into the WTC. I guess you missed all the suicide bombings in London and Spain on buses and trains.
barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
5:26 pm
Storm Trooper 5:22
We were discussing the blog but if you want to expand the
discussion I will refer you to the Reverend Wright.
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:26 pm
Folks who claim that only Christians spew “their righteousness” are lying through their teeth. There are reasons why folks like Jay Bookman would NEVER write a scathing column on the evils of Islam.
He’d lose his head. Literally.
Theo VanGogh says what? Daniel Pearl says what?
Oh wait, they lost their heads.
josef
March 3rd, 2013
5:27 pm
FROG
My “defense,” if you want to call it that and I won’t object, is the same “defense” I would present for Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Animism, and None of the Aboveism.
TROOPER
I’ll take the vote…looks like I need all the friends I can get here!
TBS
You do an awful lot of “whatever” after you’ve stirred the stink…jus’ sayin’
DEL
Welcome. If you should have any question relative to this that I might be able to help with, let me know.
AND…
) in his very few comments relative to any religious doctrine or lack thereof…
As far as Big Daddy is concerned…he beats the anti GOP drum to distraction, but when it comes to white people, I can’t recall him making any comments there, and I have found him to be highly respectful (and/or wary
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:27 pm
“I will refer you to the Reverend Wright.”
They guy who hates white people? Try again, frog.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 3rd, 2013
5:27 pm
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
Recon 0311 2533
March 3rd, 2013
5:28 pm
Islamic, Hindu or any
of the other religions or cults spewing forth their righteousness.
Only Christians.
barking frog, You have obviously have been selectively avoiding or sleeping through what radical Islam has spewed forth.
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
5:30 pm
Yes Christians and Muslims try to force people to believe and change laws so I am for separation of church and state. I don’t think religion should be in politics. I believe religion should work on their own problems.
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:31 pm
Recon, I just said the same thing about Islam. The left would NEVER trash talk Islam. In fact, Owl Gore sold his crappy tv network to a fascist Islamic propaganda channel.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 3rd, 2013
5:31 pm
Well, well, well, the blog’s oxymoron (or is just moron? LOL!), christian conservative returns.
For this one, you can forge the old adage that “Jesus may love him, but everyone else thinks he’s an azzhole.”
Jesus would agree with us…
barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
5:31 pm
Recon
barking frog, You have obviously have been selectively avoiding or sleeping through what radical Islam has spewed forth.
………………………………………………………………………………………….
I have not read one thing on this blog posted by a Muslim, radical or not.
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:32 pm
“I don’t think religion should be in politics.”
Then keep your politicians out of churches when it comes time for re-election.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 3rd, 2013
5:32 pm
Owl Gore sold his crappy tv network to a fascist Islamic propaganda channel
What? News Corp bought it?
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
5:33 pm
“Then keep your politicians out of churches when it comes time for re-election.”
Amen.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 3rd, 2013
5:33 pm
Well my guess is this sock puppet is wow or NIF/GLL. Same stupidity, different sock….
josef
March 3rd, 2013
5:34 pm
TBS
@ 5;21
Thanks. Have a puff off of Unmentionable’s pipe…
TBS
March 3rd, 2013
5:34 pm
Josef
WTF are you crying about? I said my opinion just as you said yours
If you dont like it so be it
I know you like to believe your opinion and exp in life is the end all of end all, but buddy it is nor more or less valid than anyone else..
Your $hit stinks like mine and everyone else… Mec
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:34 pm
“the blog’s oxymoron (or is just moron? LOL!), christian conservative returns.”
A few weeks ago, Misses JamVet claimed that he didn’t like who he was and was seeking help. My my my how times have changed.
“Jesus would agree with us…”
No, not one single bit, Misses JamVet.
barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
5:34 pm
josef
so you defend beliefs and religions in general. how about in practice.
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
5:35 pm
You Christians do have a lot in common with Islam as aq took your position on gay marriage.
You treat women poorly too.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 3rd, 2013
5:36 pm
Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who spent as much as $150 million on independent expenditures to bolster Republicans in the 2012 election, has informed the Securities and Exchange Commission that his Las Vegas Sands Corporation “likely violated a federal law against bribing foreign officials.”
His bribes to the Republican party however were lawful failures to try to keep out of jail
TBS
March 3rd, 2013
5:37 pm
Josef @ 5:34
Thanks for proving my point..
Your feigned outrage is just that… feigned
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:38 pm
“I don’t like the way I act on this blog” -Misses JamVet
I love JamVet’s hypocrisy. It never ceases to amaze me.
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
5:38 pm
“Have a puff off of Unmentionable’s pipe”
Unmentionable smokes weed?
barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
5:38 pm
Doggone/GA
But the faith? It’s not hard at all to follow.
……………………………………………………
Really ? It got Christ crucified.
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:39 pm
“ou treat women poorly too.”
getalife has never been laid. The only p______ getalife has ever seen is the one he came out of.
Recon 0311 2533
March 3rd, 2013
5:39 pm
I have not read one thing on this blog posted by a Muslim, radical or not.
barking frog, well not for quite sometime but actually there have been. I’m referring to radical Islam beyond this blog and it seemed that you were referring to Christians generally. Christians and Jews don’t force people to follow their beliefs through threats of decapitation or other forms of murder. Hopefully, you’re well aware of that fact.
getalife
March 3rd, 2013
5:39 pm
Keep,
Yeah, he will pay a large fine because government needs the money.
josef
March 3rd, 2013
5:40 pm
FROG
“I have not read one thing on this blog posted by a Muslim, radical or not.”
I have, and while commenting on many other issues not related to religion, their comments on Islam and its various schools of interpretation have been respectful, moderate and informative.
K’CHAK
Oh, I don’t know…it seems to make a regular appearance herebouts!
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:40 pm
“So a fellow vet buddy of mine basically dragged me down there to get into the system.”
Too bad he didn’t leave you on the side of the road.
Brosephus™ - Very good, but brick not hit back
March 3rd, 2013
5:41 pm
Recon @ 5:09
You didn’t offend me but you did offend conservatism. Challenge ideology as I and others do, but attacking someone by wishing them ill will doesn’t do justice to our cause.
*Applause!!!
TBS
March 3rd, 2013
5:41 pm
Josef
You got the little confrontation that you were longing for, but got to run for now.
You be good. You are welcome to call me names as you did and do ME but it will be ok buddy…that I promise
Take care now.
Storm Trooper
March 3rd, 2013
5:42 pm
“You Christians do have a lot in common with Islam as aq took your position on gay marriage.”
Poor getalife.
Recon 0311 2533
March 3rd, 2013
5:42 pm
You treat women poorly too.
getalife, if you attended church you would know better but that still doesn’t excuse your ignorance.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 3rd, 2013
5:43 pm
getalife, unfortunately you are probably right. We definitely need to raise corporate fines.
barking frog
March 3rd, 2013
5:44 pm
Recon
I’m referring to radical Islam beyond this blog and it seemed that you were referring to Christians generally.
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I’m referring only to this blog since Fred™ original post concerning
his outrage at my comment concerning your tv show. He seems to think
an accurate portrayal of the Bible can be without God.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 3rd, 2013
5:44 pm
christian conservative, what happened to you? Seriously.
We all know that you had self-control issues and after repeated warnings that you were sent to the blogging Land of Nod, to the East of Eden, but this???
This pathetic state?
I really do wonder what your mother, father and other family members would think of you if they read this venom you spew here.
Get help.
If this blog has caused you to humiliate yourself like this, you need it…