Posted on 02/24/2006 10:18:56 PM PST by Reagan Man
This is a very wrong-headed statement. Most skinheads are white, therefore no whites can be trusted. A complete non-sequitor.
Kind of like most rattle snakes are piousness, therefore no rattle snakes can be trusted.
Actually, the comparative statement would be:
Most poisonous creatures are snakes, so no snakes can be trusted.
The reason you may have thought your comment made sense is because there are cases where it would make sense. If you were going to randomly search a few people, and all terrorists were muslim, you would randomly search only muslims.
But it makes no sense as a statement of action against a people. In fact, it is precisely the textbook example of a racist comment -- saying that no muslim can be trusted because of the actions of a few muslims.
Thanks for the backup! :)
Really? You should inform this person about that then:
You know the rules. When speaking of another poster, make sure you ping that poster.
It's not backup; it's forum courtesy; you have a right to reply if you want to -- or just ignore it; but you have the right to KNOW somebody is trashing you.
Pat is racist A$$hole...and undermines the conservative movement by 'appearing' on the cable and networks...as a 'conservative'
This screed is ripe with isolationist racism...
This 'port' issue is his wet dream...
He asks and postulates rhetoricals through out...feeding on the lather of the ignorant...
Echo Talon Stupid?
Sigh...
Pat's not an enemy of America. He's just ventured way off the GOP reservation and he doesn't like PresBush AT ALL. He's still a conservative on a few key issues, but his isolationism has made him persona non grata with many traditional value and mainstream conservatives. Sometimes Pat is right and sometimes he's stuck on stupid.
(Hell, why not?)
It is not a "sweetheart deal". What rational basis do you have to claim that?
P&O was offered on the open market. Anybody in the world could bid for the company. Two companies actually bothered. DP World outbid the other company. It is clearly paying the "market price" for this company, if it wasn't another company would have outbid them.
I doubt the leases are "sweetheart deals" to begin with. They were bid on the open market, so the price should be fair market value for the rights. DP World will have to now pay that money.
Petronski wrote: "...wails a keening..."
I wonder if Buchanan is making an obtuse reference to Ireland and Irish wake traditions.
The Banshee
John Todhunter (b. 1839)
"...Around her shuddering isle,
With gray hair streaming:
A meteor of evil omen,
The spectre of hope forlorn,
Keening, keening!..."
Keening of the Dead
Fear bruíne, bean chaointe ná garbhmhuilleoir, Ní bhf aighidh sna Flaithis aon leaba go deo.
Three persons who will get no bed in Heaven: A quarrelsome man, a keening woman and a crude miller.- O Súilleabháin, Irish Wake Amusements., p.142
The deal was was allowed to go though, maybe we should take your advise and tell the UAE to go take a hike pay them the $8-9 billion fine then, have them kick us out of their country and not allow us to use their ports for naval operations or their airfields for our refueling planes, not to mention the intel we would lose.
The hate america first crowd is screaming the loudest against this deal.
So to the degree you base your opinion on who is on the other side, you are WITH the hate america group on this one.....
And old Pat openly embraces Hamas.
Well, I have nothing against Newark, but if we're going to boycott everybody and every business and every country that was associated with 9-11, that's a good place to start.
Go Pat Go, you're so full of it, when you finally go, MSNBC will go broke just cleaning up your HAZMAT, you ASSHAT.
It's the only possible explanation.
Thanks for the great reference.
Boycotting Newark is about the same as giving up broccoli for Lent. ;O)
I have visited Dubai three times, it is shocking to see an Arab muslim city in the desert with such an open society with huge Western influence. Dubai is a very nice city and as Rush Limbaugh said they want to be like us; isn't this what we really hope for in the Middle East?
If that is true then so are STATE owned companies which, golly gee, Dubai Ports is.
Echo Talon<~~ "d**m people are calling me dumb! boo hoo!" :)
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