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- Comment by STM on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
Lot of muslim footsoldiers in guadalajara, is there?? - Comment by AhahahahMad in Jihad on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
Your days are coming! Allah is in the way to conquer America! Our frontier soldiers are already conquered you land by immigratiom, lwgal and ilegal. What's a Mexican border for? - Comment by Dr Dreadful on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
#24: It's sad that if they'd tried that stunt here, the show's producers, the camera crew, three generations of their families and, just as an afterthought, the airline announcer would probably have been thrown in the hole and told to forget what a lawyer is.Saturday Night Live did a skit shortly after 9/11 about the unfortunate town of Mount Arab and its regrettably named citizens Al Kyda, Al Gezzera and Tally Bann, not to mention a store called Old Sammy's Bin Ladles which had a sudden and inexplicable downturn in business... - Comment by STM on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
A TV comedy show here did a skit recently where they actually booked domestic airline tickets in the name of Al Kyder and Terry Wrist. Of course, they failed to collect them and as departure time approached, they had their camera and sound guy at the check-in counter, where one of the airline's staff duly called the missing passengers over the Sydney Airport loudspeaker system: "This is the final call for the following passengers on blah blah flight blah blah to Brisbane, which is now boarding: Mr Terry Wrist and Mr Al Kyder, final call for Mr Terry Wrist and Mr Al Kyder ... " Tee hee. - Comment by Clavos on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, Doc... - Comment by Dr Dreadful on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
I don't get it. Did the Wizard also not like tennis? - Comment by Clavos on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
Doc, Doc, Doc, He dwells in Oz! - Comment by Dr Dreadful on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
Evening, Stan. Your pathological dislike of tennis players is almost as bizarre as your Union Jack campaign... ;-) - Comment by STM on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
I hate terrywrists - Comment by Dave Nalle on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
I'll concede this for you, Doug. Bykofsky does seem a bit strange and a bit gratuitously inflammatory. The same argument could have been made far more diplomatically. dave - Comment by Doug DeLong on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
Fine, Dave, maybe you're right. Maybe I just don't get his unique style. I guess it's just my partisan blindness once again getting in the way of true enlightenment. But check out this blog piece from Shaun Mullen, a man who worked with Bykofsky at the Daily News for 21 years. He's got some interesting observations on the man. - Comment by gonzo marx on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
now there's some weirdness, in the Bykofsky piece...which is hyperbole and which is substance? difficult to tell in what appears to be a straight op-ed piece not difficult to tell that any kind of hoping for PEOPLE to be hurt/killed to further or justify a political Agenda is heinous beyond words... perhaps those tossing this type of "hyperbole" around might consider that it is exactly this type of baseless fear mongering which has produced and deepened the very "divide" which they seek to eradicate..as is demonstrated indeed by Events since 9/11 just a Thought... Excelsior? - Comment by Dave Nalle on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
Doug, no one wants anyone to be a victim of terrorism, but the country does need some motivation to put trivialities aside and focus on things which really matter. Bykofsky's terrorism argument was extreme in order to make that point. You choose to focus on the hyperbole rather than the substance because I suspect you find the actual point hits a little too close to home, having bought into the politicis of partisanship and destruction. Dave - Comment by Doug DeLong on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
For those of you who see merit in Bykofsky's despicable piece, would you like to serve up yourself or your family to the terrorists? I thought not. But as long as it's a few hundred or a few thousand other nameless souls, I guess you have no probelem with that, as long as the nation is "united." Nice. - Comment by Dave Nalle on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
Dr. D., most of the country doesn't detest Bush. You're just projecting again. Giving him a low approval rating is hardly the same thing as 'detesting' him. Dave - Comment by Dr Dreadful on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
Oh, are we apathetic now? That, of course, explains why most of the country detests Bush and his wars. And here's me thinking that it was because they're the worst idea since Jonah said, "Shut up, God, I'm trying to buy a boat ticket". - Comment by Lumpy on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
could be he thinks that only a severe shock will wake up the apathetic and get the attention of the partisan hatemongers. - Comment by Shocked on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
He is so upset over the splintering of society today but he isn't looking for cohesion through a positive source. He is looking for catastrophe to unite people. This doesn't sound like a utopia type of environment. It doesn't even sound like a description of a normal environment. What type of environment does it sound like when someone is literally inviting attacks on their residents? It sounds like a complete perversion. I don't understand how somebody can base fundamental principals of basic behavior with perversion of twisted ideas of attacks on people to unite them for a better overall purpose. Unity through death by attacks, this a completely sick proposal. People have to die so that they can unite others, who teaches these principals? I've never heard of the concept. Yes I do believe when somebody is attacked they will unite together to protect themselves out of fear. This doesn't mean their political ideals change. Points of view don't change just because they fought together for defending themselves. I guess I just don't understand why some people write such slanted perspective stories on such important topics. One thing is for certain, Americas residents have and will always be proud to be Americans as far as I'm concerned. The divisiveness mentioned by the article regarding the politicians in races right now is just that they are vying for a political race with different parties well guess what they are different parties with different points of view so they will be divided naturally dividing the public on issues. Thats the fundamental nature of politics. Political discussions equate to debates with opposing parties trying to convince the crowd of their P.O.V. being correct. So whats that got to do with anything it is the representation of the nature of divisiveness in politics affecting people who follow politics. So if the writer wants to unite people, instead of wanting attacks maybe he should try getting politicians to agree on more issues and spend less time wanting attacks on innocent people. - Comment by gonzo marx on An Open Letter to the Terrorists
@ #8 - can't agree with you there... a balancing force of karma is an equal and opposite response to debt/credit accrued my karma ran over my dogma years ago for this hateful idiocy to be such a response, i would need to fall just as extremely into the diametrically opposing category (such as wanting failure in Iraq for political/partisan gain...which i do NOT desire, i'd much rather see things get sorted out there with a minimal loss of ANY lives and to the benefit of the Iraqis/Kurds themsel