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Why [Penn Jillette] Won't Call Out Islam or Scientology ("... because we have families.")
Reason.com ^ | 06/26/10 | Matt Welch

Posted on 06/26/2010 1:37:54 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Are there any groups you won't go after?

We haven't tackled Scientology because Showtime doesn't want us to. Maybe they have deals with individual Scientologists—I'm not sure. And we haven't tackled Islam because we have families.

Meaning, you won’t attack Islam because you’re afraid it’ll attack back ...

Right, and I think the worst thing you can say about a group in a free society is that you’re afraid to talk about it—I can’t think of anything more horrific. [...]

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1 posted on 06/26/2010 1:37:58 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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To: Mr. Silverback; martin_fierro; Slings and Arrows; Allegra

Ping.


2 posted on 06/26/2010 1:38:39 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Yet, we let allow this muslim sub-human culture to spread in this country.


3 posted on 06/26/2010 1:43:12 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember ("Subtlety is not going to win this fight": NJ Governor Chris Christie)
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Kent, you obviously don’t ever watch P & T on Showtime. They are ritual apologists for all things libertine and boorish. Apparently, excess has not grown tedious enough for them yet? If you think P & T’s cowardice here’s troublesome, you should watch them surrender to such obviously frivilous triffle’s as pre-marital sex, or illicit drug abuse. Basically, P & T stand for nothing and are worth much less. I feel sorry for them Kent. Wait til they get to answer for the millions of yound people that bye into their nilist philosophy.


4 posted on 06/26/2010 1:53:12 PM PDT by STD (Oil-Bambi's Revenge and econ 101 by the Father of Facist Capitalism)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Not to sound like an Internet tough guy, but...

I’ve written on Muhammad’s early military campaigns and how the teachings of “Allah” changed radically when Muhammad needed them too. It’s not likely, but any radical Muslim in my vicinity could hear about this (especially since my Rhet & Comp instructor has made it available to students as an example of a highly proficient paper and it’s been posted on the Web) and come whack me or my family. I don’t have the income to hire a bodyguard. But I was willing to put it on the line because it was true, and this false prophet has deceived billions with his 7th Century con game.

Penn & Teller are millionaires. They could hire bodyguards and security experts galore. But they’re afraid to challenge the con game.

Looks like somebody made their balls disappear.


5 posted on 06/26/2010 1:55:49 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Vuvuzela: The ancient, traditional, injection-molded polystyrene horn of the Zulu people.--Wideawake)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Great philosophy, only attack those who don't or can't fight back, hoe courageous.
6 posted on 06/26/2010 1:56:01 PM PDT by traderrob6
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They are not apologists at all. They are Libertarians who believe that the government should stay the hell out of people’s lives. I agree with them.


7 posted on 06/26/2010 1:57:21 PM PDT by teenyelliott (www.thewaterrock.com)
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Kent, you obviously don’t ever watch P & T on Showtime.

Incorrect Assessment. I have seen assorted episodes from seasons One through Five, in plain point of fact. Liked some (the ones slamming irrational belief in UFOs, communicating with the dead via ouija board, etc.), disliked others.

Next question...? ;)

8 posted on 06/26/2010 1:57:27 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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Looks like somebody made their balls disappear.

Oh, agreed, absolutely. Check my keywords for this article. ;)

9 posted on 06/26/2010 1:58:44 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: Mr. Silverback; traderrob6
Writing what you think of Muslims on the internet and taking them apart on television when you are famous are two very, very different things.

I certainly don't blame them for being honest. I have children, and I won't put their lives in danger to take on Muslims either.

10 posted on 06/26/2010 2:01:18 PM PDT by teenyelliott (www.thewaterrock.com)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Roger that!


11 posted on 06/26/2010 2:01:35 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Vuvuzela: The ancient, traditional, injection-molded polystyrene horn of the Zulu people.--Wideawake)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

IMO, there is a difference between being brave and being stupid.


12 posted on 06/26/2010 2:02:51 PM PDT by teenyelliott (www.thewaterrock.com)
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Libertarian or not, they are cowards. And anyone who attacks the Boy Scouts is a putz short on reason and honor.


13 posted on 06/26/2010 2:11:19 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Vuvuzela: The ancient, traditional, injection-molded polystyrene horn of the Zulu people.--Wideawake)
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IMO, there is a difference between being brave and being stupid.

Granted. As the invaluable Mr. Silverback has already succinctly observed, however: "Penn & Teller are millionaires. They could hire bodyguards and security experts galore."

As a useful corollary to your own credo, above: there is, likewise, a yawning, cavernous difference between being prudent and craven. If even those blessed with both great wealth and easy, frequent mass media access are so glibly ready to lie down, lamb-like, and meekly submit... then: NO ONE shall willingly stand, ultimately, and we are already lost.

14 posted on 06/26/2010 2:13:08 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

The biggest crime we commit is not speaking out. Silence is suicide. Found this from a Frosty Woolridge site.
Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total separation from America . He is addressing the death of Detroit.

Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan , paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC’s Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America . English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.


15 posted on 06/26/2010 2:15:25 PM PDT by katiedidit1
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If the guys on South Park are brave enough, why not them?

Are they famous? Yes? Are they millionaires? Yes? Can they afford to secure themselves and their family? Yes.

Somebody made their balls disappear.


16 posted on 06/26/2010 2:17:02 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Vuvuzela: The ancient, traditional, injection-molded polystyrene horn of the Zulu people.--Wideawake)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

What a pussy.


17 posted on 06/26/2010 2:18:34 PM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

When is anybody going to stand up to these death cultists?

Pray for America


18 posted on 06/26/2010 2:18:44 PM PDT by bray (Did Rush say Complete Failure?)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

This is a real eye opener to what is happening in America.

http://www.ety.com/HRP/race/detroitdecline.htm


19 posted on 06/26/2010 2:23:23 PM PDT by katiedidit1
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; Mr. Silverback
Both of you are correct. I don't agree with everything they say; heck, I don't agree with everything anyone says.

However, I cannot disparage someone for simply being honest. He is scared of Muslims attacking his family, and that I can completely understand.

Of course I am thankful for those who are willing to put it all on the line to fight Islam. I know in my heart though that I am one of the many who are just too scared to ever speak up.

I guess I am a coward too, but my posistion has always been that my first responsibility is to protect my children right now, today, and not in some valiant selfless "it's for their future" kind of way.

20 posted on 06/26/2010 2:23:44 PM PDT by teenyelliott (www.thewaterrock.com)
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