They're a bit touchy about extremism over there.

Great. So this asshat is a world-traveling Westboro Baptist preacher.

/Can we extradite him to Saudi Arabia?

You know who else tried whipping up Germans into a bigoted frenzy?

/Hitler.

You know, if all countries were still the same as they were seventy years ago, the U.S. would be fighting wars that had some point other than enriching the coffers of the military industrial complex.

The world is holding its breath -- and it's all down to a tiny Christian fundamentalist church in Florida.

and the only reason the world is holding its breath is because you assholes won't stop writing stories and filling airtime with discussion of this small group of attention-whoring cockbags.

timujin: You know, if all countries were still the same as they were seventy years ago, the U.S. would be fighting wars that had some point other than enriching the coffers of the military industrial complex.

true, if it were seventy years ago, we'd be busy creating our military industrial complex.

thomps: timujin: You know, if all countries were still the same as they were seventy years ago, the U.S. would be fighting wars that had some point other than enriching the coffers of the military industrial complex.

true, if it were seventy years ago, we'd be busy creating our military industrial complex.

I've often thought it wasn't "created" so much as "coalesced naturally due to a perfect environment". By that I mean the Cold War.

timujin: thomps: timujin: You know, if all countries were still the same as they were seventy years ago, the U.S. would be fighting wars that had some point other than enriching the coffers of the military industrial complex.

true, if it were seventy years ago, we'd be busy creating our military industrial complex.

I've often thought it wasn't "created" so much as "coalesced naturally due to a perfect environment". By that I mean the Cold War.

i dunno, i feel like a lot of the cold war escalation was driven by the agencies and companies that built up during the war, and not the other way around. either way, our current wars still don't make a whole lot of sense.

thomps: timujin: thomps: timujin: You know, if all countries were still the same as they were seventy years ago, the U.S. would be fighting wars that had some point other than enriching the coffers of the military industrial complex.

true, if it were seventy years ago, we'd be busy creating our military industrial complex.

I've often thought it wasn't "created" so much as "coalesced naturally due to a perfect environment". By that I mean the Cold War.

i dunno, i feel like a lot of the cold war escalation was driven by the agencies and companies that built up during the war, and not the other way around. either way, our current wars still don't make a whole lot of sense.

Chicken or egg... As things were winding down in the late 40's, the people who had had the ear of the leaders of our country started looking around and noticed their source of income was drying up, so they did what they could to keep the money coming in. It's just good business. But the other side really helped a lot. Of course, it was good for them as well, having the U.S. as this great enemy.

/I used to work with a Russian immigrant. One day we were talking about propaganda from the 80s and I told him that when I was in elementary school the chapter on the Soviet Union in our social studies book had pictures of his countrymen waiting in long breadlines. He looked at me and smiled and said, "We had the same pictures of you."

timujin: /I used to work with a Russian immigrant. One day we were talking about propaganda from the 80s and I told him that when I was in elementary school the chapter on the Soviet Union in our social studies book had pictures of his countrymen waiting in long breadlines. He looked at me and smiled and said, "We had the same pictures of you."

ha, that is awesome.

timujin: thomps: timujin: You know, if all countries were still the same as they were seventy years ago, the U.S. would be fighting wars that had some point other than enriching the coffers of the military industrial complex.

true, if it were seventy years ago, we'd be busy creating our military industrial complex.

I've often thought it wasn't "created" so much as "coalesced naturally due to a perfect environment". By that I mean the Cold War.

I think that's when our politicians learned how powerful fear was when they wanted to do bad things we'd normally speak out against. The Cold War was like a decades-long post-9/11.

He's just trying to start a flamewar.

CitizenTed: You know who else tried whipping up Germans into a bigoted frenzy?

These people?

German Republicans

Pastor John Hagee
Florida pastor Bill Keller
Charles and David Koch - Google 'Koch Buchenwald'
Pope Joseph Ratzinger
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Newt Gingrich
Karl Rove
Charles Krauthammer
Glenn Beck
Ann Coulter
Rush Limbaugh
Michele Bachmann
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer - from Biermann, beer brewer

lo quilty: I can simpathyze with this guy. Who likes Muslims?

But who cares about him? What a waste of time to even be talkign about this nonissue.

We should talk about Kryon Hormon who is still missing and was probably killed by his mother.

:-(

How many Muslims do you know?

Now That's What I Call a Taco!: You know, it's amazing the U.S. isn't more hated than it is. If you lived in that town and he was the first American you ever met, how could you possibly even stand us?

My wife almost had that same experience when she came over from Ireland, but it was Massachusetts where she first lived.
Almost moved back to Ireland, but luckily she came out to Colorado first and met some decent people.

/freaking massholes.

ar_gyrion:

The response from Cologne to this

Damn - I'm missing the "Mitternachtsspitzen" & "Fruehstueckspause" with Becker.

This asshole needs to STFU and go back to his Bible teachings if he's actually ever read it.

lo quilty: queezyweezel: lo quilty: I can simpathyze with this guy. Who likes Muslims?

But who cares about him? What a waste of time to even be talkign about this nonissue.

We should talk about Kryon Hormon who is still missing and was probably killed by his mother.

:-(

How many Muslims do you know?

One of the girls I work with is Muslim, but she's not a regular Muslim. She's pretty and nice. She drives a BMW.

That is a regular Muslim. most of em follow a moderate interpretation of the Qur'an, just like most Christians don't follow the old testament word for word.