Is it something in the diet? Wearing tight briefs instead of loose boxers? Listening to too much Rushie or Michael or Sean? Did they lick all the lead paint off their G.I. Joe dolls when they were kids? I dunno, but it seems that the shooters, the Mr. Tildes, the Hornet Drivers and the Anonymooses of the world are always breezing in, dropping a few lines of the most off-the-wall irrelevant shite ("Just substitute "Christian fundamentalist" for "Muslim" and watch the Saloniks break their own vows and go to Wal*Mart to buy a gun and canned goods for the coming apocalypse) (WTF????), then leave the building. Jaysus, but I'd love to know what goes on in those seeminly vacuous noggins.

And when they do reply, it's always the old playground comeback ("Oh yeah, well my dad can pound your dad . . . " or "Oh yeah, well your sister is fatter than my sister"). Or the back seat whine, ("M-o-m-m-m-m, Jason punched my arm"), or the coulter-taunt,('Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah -- Jason is a homo . . . ). What is with these people?

My take? I think they enjoy the humiliation and scorn they get back. Nothing like a litle self-loathing, I guess . . .

Golden Shower Boy opines:

"Ward Churchill claims that the 9/11 hijackers, who he termed "combat teams", were motivated by a sense of revenge and retailiation against the USA for its actions in Iraq 1990-2001."

And your point would be?? That they were motivated because "they hate our freedoms", as one famous wag once put it?

" . . . I am not surprised to see everyone distancing themselves from that bag of human excrement."

And then you follow with this:

"There are plenty of people, however, who agree with his analysis - Pantanal has written something similar earlier this week on Salon letters - and to many folks he is the embodiment of the leftist position on terrorism."

WTF are you nattering on about?? Distancing themselves yet at the same time agreeing? Kind of like, "I hate Bush but I agree with everything he says and I support him."

"Now that's reality."

Yep, if you live in LaLa Land . . .

"So, anything to say about the other three facts I listed? No? Well, that's not surprising."

Ah, one of those guys, answering your own questions. Great Dittohead technique -- people who say things like, "So what you're saying is . . . . " really shouldn't be pandered to, but, sigh, here goes.

Anywho Golden Boy, I really don't have much to say about your first two 'factoids'. Let's just say, we probably don't see eye to eye on Hamas or Hezbollah -- as the saying goes, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. And Hamas, (the political arm) was actually elected in a fair democratic election that was totally dissed by the U.S. & Israel -- strange, no?? We support the 'democracy' in Egypt and Pakistan, but not the guys who are trying to hold onto their own land.

Your third factoid is amusing -- "-A quarter of Muslims in America, when polled, supported suicide bombing in defence of Islam. Approximately the same number could not or would not state an unfavorable opinion of al Qaeda."

Actually, not amusing -- pretty distressing . . . "On the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, one-third of the American people continue to believe that Saddam Hussein was "personally involved" in the terrorist assault, according to one recent poll. Other surveys show that a larger number - 40 percent or more - believe that Iraq had some role in the attacks, or that Iraq gave substantial support to Al-Qaida."

Heck, that means that your average American Muslim is smarter than your average whatever American.

And speaking of Ward Churchill, the description you used, "that bag of human excrement" is exactly the same description, word for word, that I usually use for Ariel Sharon.

"Do you care to dispute any of this, or any of the facts I listed in my last post? I sympathize; the facts are not kind to apologists for Islam."

And sorry, I really dislike getting in pissing contests with apologists for Likudites.

Golden Boy, like that yappy little terrier next door that you'd just love to twist head off, continues with his silly little game: "Wave your hands!" He says, whatever that means.

"I suppose you folks think that if you post enough times, the facts I put to you will be forgotten."

Read that again, folks, just for the sheer stupidity at play here.

"If you post enough times" -- yep, you've posted your silly little identical post three times already. "post enough times" indeed. And yes, they'll be forgotten because, like you, they are silly.

"PS I see totallyblase has just posted in support of Hamas. This has become a very enlightening thread."

It would be if you'd follow it . . . .