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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 03:19 PM

and let me help you terry - (because I really like you!)

" I see commercials - daily, in fact - telling me that my coffee is hink. I see harm in science being politicized. I see harm in science being converted to the new religion.

You got to turn of the TV or change the channel!

..."And our kids think that science is the gospel, soaking in whatever their professors tell them".

Nobody listens to 'professors'!

"I see harm in a hospital being unable to turn on its lights so it can the fridges running and all because some noble progressive won't allow loaned or given money to be used to build a power plant".

I thought the problem was that nobody ever turns the damn lights OFF!

"I see harm in the tyranny of mindlessness, particularly mindlessness under the pagan and ill-informed god of science. I see this tyranny all the time, every day".

Are you working in a University?

... you'll see the tyranny of thought control heightening to levels you've never conceived possible. Dumbing down won't diminish, but on all lips you'll hear Science and what a dimwit you are for being primitive and superstitious.

You have to get some Japanese or better Turkish TV channels in your house (they are completely chaotic)- or watch more Jon Stewart - that helps!

Or don't read so much of Orwell? (It's fiction, darling - the problem is that nobody

can't control anybody anymore - Just look at this threat!)

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 02:46 PM

zeroworker -

- "but I thought the root causes of terrorism were pretty well understood too".

Really? See I live in Germany and we also had our Terrorists and I even met one of them (after he was released from prison) - and on top of it I had to read a lot about the "root cause" for "our" Terrorism and somehow it doesn't match at all with Rumsfeld 'reminder' or Glenns explanation but the 'Climate change' I can see from my house - (there is this big mountain and you get it - snow and all) - Perhaps a lot of the writers on this blog also need to meet a real Terrorist or a mountain in front of their house?

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:30 PM

zeroworker -

"Glenn did open the door in Update II"

How true - How true... and I also wouldn't put terrorism in the category of Climate change.

But I always thought "the question of Climate change" was definitely answered a long time ago

- it's not Glenns or my fault that some idiots still try to dispute it.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:30 PM

zeroworker -

"Glenn did open the door in Update II"

How true - How true... and I also wouldn't put terrorism in the category of Climate change.

But I always thought "the question of Climate change" was definitely answered a long time ago

- it's not Glenns or my fault that some idiots still try to dispute it.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:11 AM

or Glenn? -

do you think "trutherthreads" can cause Terrorism?

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 09:51 AM

is this the climate-truther-we-like-to-talk-about-whatever-we-like-to-talk-about-thread?

Great! - and what I would like to talk about today might be a bit of topic (no 'climate change' - no 'Newton') - but I promise it will be just about ME too -

That's why It's called: "Women like Me."

So - "Women like me" really love to travel around the Near East and love all this attention they get - especially if they are blond and wearing a white Burqa from time to time because it compliments the blue eyes. The only thing which is disturbing occasionally is that all the woman there, who are not like me - seem to have much less fun and it makes you start thinking:How could that be? And you start talking to a lot of these woman and you even manage to visit a real Harem. And you conduct some interviews for some weird ethnical TV program and it is not easy because you learn some unpleasant things about your own self. About your 'degenerated Western lifestyle and your absolute lack of moral'.

But then you get to the Black Desert and 'wild' Beduinen cook for you and you ask yourself why do they cook for you, while they are treating their own women worst than any cook.

And you get kind of angry and tell your Egyptian-German Translator to tell the 'wild Things' to be nice to their women and he smiles and tells you that you are nuts -(not exactly 'nuts' but something like it) - And he might be right - because you are a 'degenerated amoral

western woman' - and the next day you talk to a whole group of woman, who tell you that a wife who is unfaithful to her husband deserves to be stoned and you realize that you are a long way from Cairo.

And you are not discouraged at all and you still love Egypt and you still think about moving there for a while - but you definitely don't want to watch some videos where woman from Afghanistan tell you to leave them to 'their' misery - Because you would love to take Hannah Montana and a whole bunch of American Barbie chicks into each of these Muslim countries and destroy their 'manly chauvinistic' society for ever - but then your friendly 'Translator'

cuts in and tells you: "You wouldn't like that" - "No more the thrill of the Wild Things"? -

And that's why I think y'all might be much better off discussing climate change or collapsing towers, than what causes Terrorism!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 04:44 PM

that was mighty mighty Amity -

but as you see it again got completely lost in the raunchy party of us kids - And did I tell you about my plan for Afghanistan? I would just move 40 000 hot babes (instead of soldiers) - into the country - and even the Taliban would forget about their Hannah Montana bedspreads very fast and Mr. Rohde couldn't tell us such amusing stories anymore about 'camping out' with the enemy..

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 07:04 AM

and sysprog -

I just love to be an attention whore!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 06:59 AM

that's it!! -

'All Catholic Churches in the Orlando Diocese would let you into Mass in flipflops".

How come that of all people Heru finds another major reasons why THEY hate us!

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