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Sunday, November 30, 2008 05:52 PM

You fat lazy westerners simply overrate the value of shock is all

Try living somewhere less comfy where the definition of privation isn't a day without iPhone and gourmet pizza. Why do you think 'terrorism' in the west is so noteworthy? Because you feel entitled to be insulated from it. Because you're soft. Do you honestly believe atrocities, some of which are being committed by the very tyrants and dictators you cheer, every day, aren't being committed on miserable misfortunates the world over? Take Darfur for example. Darfur isn't about 'genocide' whatever that is, it's about how you feel about tossing that word around. But for the vast majority of people in the world who actually have to live amidst this anarchy, this attack or that one is no big thing in the long run. Did you know that more than 8000 people have been killed in drug violence in northern Mexico this year alone? Or that the LTTE in Sri Lanka have slaughtered nearly a hundred thousand people in their decades long so called civil war. Or that Algeria fought their own civil war against Islamists in the 1990's to the tune of 160,000 killed. Or that the ANC in South Africa, before they were 'legitimized' and came to represent the face of peace and reconciliation to the west, worked with the KGB to kill more than 14,000 anti communist Muslims in Zambia and a similar number in Mozambique back in the golden age of terrorism, the late 1970's?

And so called terrorists or freedom fighters or militants or activists or whatever Reuters, CNN and AP call them this month, know this. They didn't shoot up some god forsaken backwater cesspit. That's what the 40 year civil war in Sri Lanka that you don't give a shit about, is for. No, they shot up one of the more westernized places in India. It's like the Tsunami in Indonesia a few years back. What does everyone remember? All the Brits and Aussies on vacation. Who knew?

So shit yeah, you want to do something about terrorism? Then you'd be better served hoping for concerted attacks against yourselves, because attacks against anyone else don't mean shit.

Sunday, November 30, 2008 05:39 PM
Original article: In Barack we trust?

Boy oh boy

It sounds like his ACTUAL Presidency is going to be quite a letdown for some of you. What? No solar powered Unicorns? No slave free sentient tofu trees? Daaaaaammmmmnnn.

Sunday, November 30, 2008 05:38 PM
Original article: The egos have landed

Klytus I wasn't speaking to you

But you knew that. You're just desperate desperate desperate to get in the last word. It's really rather pathological with you, isn't it? I don't know what kind of meds they have now for that, but you might want to check it out.

Sunday, November 30, 2008 05:36 PM
Original article: I Like to Watch

Well all I know is

That when Cattle Car Galactica closes up shop soon it will generate 5 suicide cult columns from Salon dotcom and hundreds and hundreds of letters from the Basement Dweller League.

Sunday, November 30, 2008 02:46 PM
Original article: I Like to Watch

I have a Focus, well my wife does

It was built by quality Mexican labor in Mexico. Runs fine. I also had a Taurus which was a good car too, until I fucked it up in high speed chase from the cops.

Sunday, November 30, 2008 09:56 AM
Original article: I Like to Watch

If only

They could throw in vampires, black people in Baltimore, hand held jittery camera work and set it on a mysterious tropical island where nothing ever happens, that would be awesome.

Sunday, November 30, 2008 09:21 AM
Original article: The egos have landed

Didn't Chinese Democracy debut a tune on Guitar Hero

Or some other equally credible and monumental forum? Yeah Yeah Yeah.

Sunday, November 30, 2008 06:23 AM

The freedom fighters were British born Pakistanis

We must liberate India from the Hindu-Jew occupation.

Friday, November 28, 2008 08:31 PM
Original article: The egos have landed

Both of them should stick to doing Disney soundtracks

That's where they belong.

Friday, November 28, 2008 08:29 PM
Original article: In Barack we trust?

David Sirota knows nothing

A Dear Leader is imposed, not elected. Oh they might have sham elections like in Cuba or Venezuela or North Korea, but that's just an excuse to get people to stand in line and smack them about some more. No, a Dear Leader is pushed down by force. From birth. Children are raised to worship the Dear Leader, to sacrifice anyone even their own families for the good of the state. Or at least its will.

The only question I have, is, do you know this or are you just disappointed it won't happen here?

Friday, November 28, 2008 04:22 PM

They need a hug

The freedom activists are just misunderstood. We should embrace them.

Friday, November 28, 2008 02:48 PM

Other than furious internet flamewars

Venezuela and the US have no intention and little real world ability to meddle in one another's affairs. If Venezuela erupted in flames tomorrow I wouldn't care. And if it happened to us, Chavez would suddenly find religion and thank god.

Friday, November 28, 2008 02:36 PM

I'm sure they have some grievance we should apologize for

I'm sure these liberation activists have a valid point. We should immediately convene a convention and declare all their enemies to be capitalist neocon zionist occupier war criminals. We also need to evict all Hindus from India and make it another Islamic state.

Friday, November 28, 2008 01:45 PM

It's pretty hard to ignore the fact that the Chabad house was attacked

But you managed to do that.

Friday, November 28, 2008 01:44 PM

Well at any rate 5 dead Jews out of the total of 175 killed

Is clear proof that the Jews are the root of all of this.

Friday, November 28, 2008 07:25 AM

India should hand over land for peace to Islam

Clearly that is the best and only workable strategy. Purge New Delhi or Bangalore or Hyderabad of all Hindus and make it an Islamic city. Terrorism will all end immediately as a result.

Friday, November 28, 2008 07:22 AM

Give the freedom fighters New Delhi

Land for peace always works. I recommend all Hindu Indians evacuate India and give the sub continent over to Islamic Freedom Fighters.

Thursday, November 27, 2008 04:39 PM

so you fed them 2000 gallons of water and huge amounts energy

AKA steak, to get them to use less energy?

Thursday, November 27, 2008 04:26 PM

I am grateful

My company didn't send me AND my job to India. Just my job.

Thursday, November 27, 2008 07:47 AM

How did that genocide of all the Native Americans work out?

Gobble Gobble

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 01:24 PM
Original article: Is Obama president yet?

Unless you were hoping for a unicorn to fall out of his ass tomorrow

A TRANSITION to power is generally preferable than a rabble induced mad rush to whatever.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 01:22 PM
Original article: "Four Christmases"

Well if they were a same sex couple trying to adopt a handicapped brown baby

While struggling to find the time to mount a giant puppet head parade protest during the 'white mans' Thankgiving parade...and the whole movie was in Bulgarian...

The orgasmic screams of delight from Salon would reach heaven, which does not exist.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 01:20 PM

This is my fifth end of the world

So I'm not worried. At worst, I can EAT you. Don't test me, braver men have, and lost.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 01:19 PM
Original article: Detroit isn't dead yet

No one cares

Why? It's just this year's excuse. If you brought back SLAVERY the car companies would whine and scream that it's because we don't have million dollar tariffs on foreign cars or US cars built by foreign owned companies in the US. And if we did that they would whine and scream that there's no law FORCING people to buy a Detroit car at gunpoint.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 01:16 PM

Let the liberal guilt wash over you like a mighty mighty stream

You should give all your money to brown people. Hell, give them your wife and daughter too. Rep-r-a-shuns!

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