Did she fire ten shots or only nine? You feelin lucky troll? WELL DO YA PUNK!.
Posted on 06/04/2005 10:33:08 AM PDT by freeperskickbutt
ASHINGTON - The Pentagon on Friday confirmed for the first time that a U.S. soldier deliberately kicked a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's Muslim holy book in violation of the military's rules for handling the Quran.
In other confirmed incidents, prison guards threw water balloons in a cell block, causing an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet; a guard's urine splashed on a detainee and his Quran; an interrogator stepped on a Quran during an interrogation; and a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Quran.
The findings are among the results of an investigation last month by Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, the commander of the detention center in Cuba, that was triggered by a Newsweek magazine report — later retracted — that a U.S. soldier had flushed one Guantanamo Bay detainee's Quran down a toilet.
The story stirred worldwide controversy and the Bush administration blamed it for deadly demonstrations in Afghanistan.
Last week, Hood disclosed that he had confirmed five cases of mishandling of the Quran, but he refused to provide details. Allegations of Quran desecration at Guantanamo Bay have led to anti-American passions in many Muslim nations, although Pentagon officials have insisted that the problems were relatively minor and that U.S. commanders have gone to great lengths to enable detainees to practice their religion in captivity.
Hood said last week that he found no credible evidence that a Quran was ever flushed down a toilet. He said a prisoner who was reported to have complained to an FBI agent in 2002 that a military guard threw a Quran in the toilet has since told Hood's investigators that he never witnessed any form of Quran desecration.
That roadkill reminds me of when my kids were little, and we'd see a lifeless bunny or deer or raccoon on the road and I'd notice my kids' sad faces, and say "Boy that bunny sure picked a silly spot to take a nap." As they got older and smarter and onto me, I'd still say it (knowing that they knew that I was "full of it"...or they would say the "silly spot" thing...to keep the tradition going. It sort of softened the blow of the way they (and I) hated to see the poor animals in that state, being that they love animals so much. Their love of animals is one of the COUNTLESS things I love about my loving, sweet children.
I guess you could call our "Pointing out of Dumb/Silly Spot-Picker-for-Napping, Animal Tradition." :-)
My parents were kinda.. odd.
Mom recited 'three blind mice', and when she got the the section about 'she cut off their tails', she punctuated the word 'cut' by smacking the car dash.
She finished it off by saying the ending verse as 'have you ever seen such a sight in your life as three dead mice' instead of it's normal ending.
We, of course, sat there looking at mom as if she'd just been to Pluto and back.
Then one of 'we rotten kids' would say something smart like "We've seen dead rabbits.." and rattle off a list of stuff we'd seen croaked.
I'm still convinced my parents were escaped circus performers.
Did she fire ten shots or only nine? You feelin lucky troll? WELL DO YA PUNK!.
Then one of 'we rotten kids' would say something smart like "We've seen dead rabbits.." and rattle off a list of stuff we'd seen croaked.
I'm still convinced my parents were escaped circus performers."
LOLOL, Darksheare. I wish I had known you and your family when I was little...I would have been howling along with ALL of you. I love your mom! And I'm sure she played a big role in your awesomely great and odd (of the good kind,) sense of humor.
So many parents don't play with their kids from this angle of "wit play,"...and many times those kids grow to not have a good handle on humor, and it's huge, great world. Those kids, I've noticed, don't even have a confidence in themselves of knowing when to laugh. I feel bad for them when I see it. (Or maybe they're just in SHOCK over what I've just said. LOL.)
I think some parents think that it's "out of the box," or that the kids "won't get it," or it's the whole "why bother" thing--the parents prefer to save thier zingers and wit for their friends. Too bad for the kids of those type of parents...in my book, that is. :-)
"...escaped circus performers." LOL!!! Hope you don't mind if I share with those who would understand and would get a good belly laugh at your story.... :-)
And nuclear explosions :)
IMO we have lost a lot in our rush to call every newbie who doesn't set out cookies and milk a troll and "get in before the thread."
Not every newbie, just the moronic ones.
I assume you mean "get in before the zot."
And yes, newbies are under suspicion because so many are trolls. This one was clearly a troll.
Don't mind at all.
My parents have a weird sense of humor as well.
Probably why my brother and I never really got into trouble for detonating the backyard once or twice.
(Though dad did challenge us once to dig an in ground swimming pool.. after we'd dug a 'tiger trap' and bagged the local poacher.)
My first time in a double zot thread :)
To you bigsigh:
Every single troll is an ENEMY OF THE REPUBLIC!
OMG. You warped. Me like.
And nukes
Knitting, that scary funnel is making me have to want go to the bathroom. It's making my innards move.
it's=its. Back to school for me.
LOL!
We were trying to build an in ground fort, but instead made a tiger trap.
The guy was out back in teh dark spotlighting deer and fell in.
We'd also bagged a skunk, and the ensuing chaos said it all.
We were in the dining room, heard someone outside scream, then some shouting, a curse, then a shotgun blast, and then more cursing as someone ran through the backyard.
Next morning, we checked the pit, and he'd missed the skunk when he fired.
Skunk had climbed out by then by going up the stairs we'd cut into the pit.
Was quite funny after the fact, even if the backyard was uninhabitable for awhile.
(The joys of living in the sticks!)
FOFLOL!! MY brother and I DID get into Serious Trouble after PAINFULLY discovering that plywood DOES NOT WORK as wing material on the two man aircraft we built....yeah, we seriously crashed and burned after launching the second redesign off a cliff. We STILL got hided for that though, for which we both feel we were subject to Double Jeopardy....I mean hey, we were only 8 and 10 years old, respectively, so what did we know??
I have a Koran, and I have BIG plans for it!!!
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Oh OUCH.
Dad was only upset when we near cooked the walnut tree out back.
(It lived.)
Thankfully, we never did try to fly.
Mom wouldn't let us disassemble the lawnmower OR her car for an engine.
Sounds like you were raised in Tornado territory...bathroom's one of the safest places...
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