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This Pork Eating Crusader Patch Is A Huge Hit With Troops In Afghanistan
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| March 16, 2012
| Robert Johnson
Posted on 03/16/2012 10:34:27 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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I'm getting some.
To: Former Proud Canadian
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:36:25 AM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: Former Proud Canadian
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:37:11 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1151 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: Former Proud Canadian
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:40:10 AM PDT
by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: Former Proud Canadian
I’d get some too if he were eating an easily-identified piece of bacon.
The crusader on the patch looks like he’s eating a bull scrotum.
Gotta love the idea, though.
It ranks right up there with my wish to see the Saudi flag alight.
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:42:07 AM PDT
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great; until it happens to YOU.)
To: KoRn
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:44:24 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1151 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: Former Proud Canadian
If this is true God Bless our soldiers! The terms and symbols developed by our men in the field get right to the point and are UN-PC!
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:44:39 AM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: Former Proud Canadian
I guess we can now refer to SecDef ‘Pancetta’ /s
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:46:13 AM PDT
by
pierrem15
(Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
To: Former Proud Canadian
You wouldn’t be allowed to wear it on your uniform at all. It might be a hit, but I doubt it’s on any American uniforms.
Doesn’t really matter what’s on it, you can’t just add a patch to your combat uniform as far as I know.
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:47:51 AM PDT
by
ltc8k6
To: Former Proud Canadian
The Crusaders, when out of pork, would (at the siege of Antioch at least) dine upon the flesh of the dead ‘Saracen’. It was reported that it was a little dry, but with a bit of mead - it did not go down ill. ;)
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:51:40 AM PDT
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to DC to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: Former Proud Canadian
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:52:47 AM PDT
by
SueRae
(Tale of 2 Towers - First, Isengaard (GOP-e), then, the Tower of Sauron on 11.06.2012)
To: ltc8k6
It would make a great tattoo though!
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:53:23 AM PDT
by
meatloaf
(Support House Bill 1380 to eliminate oil slavery.)
To: allmendream
Is there an actual difference between the flesh of a pig and that of a Saracen? Apart from the dryness that is.
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:54:28 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
To: pierrem15
I guess we can now refer to SecDef Pancetta /s
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:55:45 AM PDT
by
Talisker
(He who commands, must obey.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
I think this is a great idea, but some how it is hard to believe..Military people are not allowed to put any other patch on uniforms except the issued ones..At least that was so when my husband was in uniform..
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:56:02 AM PDT
by
PLD
To: muir_redwoods
Less likely to catch a disease from eating the flesh of the pig I would imagine.
People have all the diseases that can infect another person. Eat someone who had Hepatitis - get Hepatitis, etc, etc, etc.
Sort of like mucking about in Egyptian tombs isn't such a good idea. Breathing in spores of microbes that have evolved over the last few thousand years to digest dessicated human flesh? What could go wrong?
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:57:53 AM PDT
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to DC to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: allmendream
“The Crusaders, when out of pork, would (at the siege of Antioch at least) dine upon the flesh of the dead Saracen. It was reported that it was a little dry, but with a bit of mead - it did not go down ill. ;) “
Citations, please.
Thanks.
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posted on
03/16/2012 10:57:56 AM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
To: GladesGuru; allmendream
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posted on
03/16/2012 11:03:03 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: GladesGuru
http://www.crusades-encyclopedia.com/cannibalism.html I got it from several different sources - including Harold Lamb and his book on the Crusades. Runciman as well. They in turn got it from several sources - both Christian and Muslim.
From the article cited above.........
Radulph of Caen, an eyewitness to events at Ma’arra in 1098, wrote, “In Ma’arra our troops boiled pagan adults in cooking-pots; they impaled children on spits and devoured them grilled.” (1)
The chronicler Albert of Aix seemed to rank Muslims lower than dogs when he wrote, “Not only did our troops not shrink from eating dead Turks and Saracens; they also ate dogs!”
Guibert of Nogent, in his work Historia Hierosolymitana, provides more details on the incident of cannibalism at Ma’arra. There he notes that whenever the Tafurs who took part in the expedition discovered “scraps of flesh from the pagan's bodies” cannibalism was practiced with little discretion. According to Guibert, the Tafurs were well aware that the Muslims feared them because of cannibalism. For that reason, on at least one occasion, the Tafurs publicly “roasted the bruised body of a Turk over a fire as if it were meat for eating, in full view of the Turkish forces.” Guibert notes that the Franks also practiced cannibalism, but they did so “in secret and as rarely as possible.”
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posted on
03/16/2012 11:03:44 AM PDT
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to DC to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Oh, How I love it! (and I don't even pork!)
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posted on
03/16/2012 11:04:08 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(I will NEVER vote for Romney, the GOP will go the way of the Whigs if they nominate him)
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