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by golem
Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:37 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: 500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground
Replies: 657
Views: 35623

500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground

<t>Scrat wrote: . Israel has to change its attitude in order to survive. Period. <br/> <br/> .<br/> <br/> <br/> If we once change our attitude as you put it we will fall in a matter of days if not hours.<br/> <br/> THAT is the reality of life. We face a foe who will only negottiate on our destructio...
by golem
Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:32 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: 500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground
Replies: 657
Views: 35623

500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground

<r>spot wrote: One wonders why Israel wants a 20km "security zone" in Southern Lebanon, in that case. I thought it was to deny Hezbollah access to the groundspace from which Katyusha rockets could be launched into Israel.<br/> <br/> Southern Beirut is... what? shall we call it 50km from the Israeli ...
by golem
Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:39 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: 500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground
Replies: 657
Views: 35623

500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground

<r>spot wrote: Perhaps you could substantiate that assertion in some way? It goes entirely against logic that a terror-bomber from an F16 could differentiate civilians on that basis, and they're the people who killed most in the last few weeks. <br/> <br/> <br/> "The UN humanitarian chief accused Hi...
by golem
Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:45 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: 500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground
Replies: 657
Views: 35623

500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground

<t>I’m amazed at the press stories regarding the ‘civilians’ who have been killed and injured.<br/> <br/> Of course there were some but in almost all cases these so called civilians were either terrorists or their active supporters, either actively assisting in very practical ways or acting as...
by golem
Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:35 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: A democratically elected government
Replies: 3
Views: 962

A democratically elected government

<t>Well, having just opened a letter it looks like I’ll be away for a (hopefully) short while.<br/> <br/> I’ve just been “invited” to assist in the effort in the North. <br/> <br/> At my age and especially with my experience in the past I’ll be involved in the interrogation of captured ter...
by golem
Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:34 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: 500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground
Replies: 657
Views: 35623

500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground

<t>Well, having just opened a letter it looks like I’ll be away for a (hopefully) short while.<br/> <br/> I’ve just been “invited” to assist in the effort in the North. <br/> <br/> At my age and especially with my experience in the past I’ll be involved in the interrogation of captured ter...
by golem
Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:20 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Lebanese civilians seek hope in Tyre
Replies: 58
Views: 3324

Lebanese civilians seek hope in Tyre

<t>Diuretic wrote: This validates my position that religion and politics should be kept separate.<br/> <br/> golem you are describing a theocracy and a theocracy is antithetical to a democracy, regardless of which religion is driving the theocracy.<br/> <br/> <br/> I totally agree and it is the reco...
by golem
Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:15 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Lebanese civilians seek hope in Tyre
Replies: 58
Views: 3324

Lebanese civilians seek hope in Tyre

<t>OpenMind wrote: In all my years, I have not experienced this, neither have my friends nor their children nor their grandchildren. They abide by their religious code and do not interfere with the rest of us. There are only those few young impressionable youths who have been fuelled to extremes by ...
by golem
Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:38 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: A democratically elected government
Replies: 3
Views: 962

A democratically elected government

<t>Education for one thing. <br/> <br/> Not the terrible propaganda that presently takes its place in the palests schools and colleges but REAL education.<br/> <br/> Then isolation. Let us complete our security fence and at the same time define our national borders NOT on the line of the fence but w...
by golem
Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:19 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Lebanese civilians seek hope in Tyre
Replies: 58
Views: 3324

Lebanese civilians seek hope in Tyre

<t>YZGI wrote: I have a question. Just what is it going to take to rein in the Islamics, muslims etc. I mean what the hell is the world supposed to do with these people?Let’s just do a reality check.<br/> <br/> Islam is utterly incompatible with Western democracy. <br/> <br/> Really.<br/> <br/> In...
by golem
Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:51 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: 500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground
Replies: 657
Views: 35623

500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground

<t>Issie wrote: Again Golem, you portray your deep rooted bigotted view.<br/> <br/> Did I mention Jews or Muslims/Islam.?<br/> <br/> Are you so blind that you cannot see why the people in Palestine want to fight Israel.?<br/> <br/> Are you so blind that you cannot see building settlements and treati...
by golem
Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:24 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: 500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground
Replies: 657
Views: 35623

500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground

<t>Issie wrote: Golem<br/> <br/> I`ve read enough of your posts to expect the personal insults that you write.<br/> <br/> Don`t patronise or be condescending to me.<br/> <br/> The bigotted, brain washed idiology that has been instilled into your tunnel vision warped intelligence is a fine example of...
by golem
Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:39 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: 500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground
Replies: 657
Views: 35623

500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground

<r>Issie wrote: Yeh, let`s blame everyone but Israel.<br/> <br/> Israel that has stolen land that is not theirs.<br/> <br/> Israel that refuses to go back to the 1967 borders.<br/> <br/> Israel that ignores the UN resolutions<br/> <br/> Israel that is backed by the USA<br/> <br/> Israel that without...
by golem
Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:06 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: A democratically elected government
Replies: 3
Views: 962

A democratically elected government

<r>The Palestinian democratically elected government.<br/> <br/> A translation of the hammas charter. This is their election manifesto. <br/> <br/> <URL url="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/hamas.htm">http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/hamas.htm</URL> .<br/> <br/> Read it --- and we...
by golem
Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:42 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Damn the French
Replies: 44
Views: 3592

Damn the French

koan wrote: Damn golem for not realizing this thread is about french fries and trying to make it political.


May be it's a chip on my shoulder!:wah:
by golem
Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:16 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Damn the French
Replies: 44
Views: 3592

Damn the French

<r>spot wrote: Only someone so nailed to the outside edge of reality could think so:<br/> <br/> Jacques Chirac hinted strongly yesterday that France will soon introduce legislation banning Muslim girls from wearing headscarves to school, saying most French people saw "something aggressive" in the ve...
by golem
Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:00 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Lebanese civilians seek hope in Tyre
Replies: 58
Views: 3324

Lebanese civilians seek hope in Tyre

<r>spot wrote: Most would want to retain control of their reactions, to say to themselves "I have a choice, to react or not to react" and to decide and then to do as they have chosen. That selectivity was long ago abandoned within Israeli political circles. The consequence is that any two-bit organi...
by golem
Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:56 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Damn the French
Replies: 44
Views: 3592

Damn the French

<t>There’s a great deal of trouble brewing in Europe because of the pro-islamic stance of Chirac and his government. <br/> <br/> Chirac is seen as the European elder statesman. <br/> <br/> His cold grey corpse like hand is steering the creation of Eurabia in no small way because he and his support...
by golem
Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:39 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: 500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground
Replies: 657
Views: 35623

500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground

--- and in the meantime Iran continues to make it's atomic bomb while the worlds attentuion is focused elsewhere.

Coincidence?

Hardly.
by golem
Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:37 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Lebanese civilians seek hope in Tyre
Replies: 58
Views: 3324

Lebanese civilians seek hope in Tyre

<r>OpenMind wrote: Strange how, so far, everyone has been more concerned with laying blame and not an ounce of compassion has been shown for the civilians, particularly children, who are not responsible for Hizbollah.<br/> <br/> The same applies to those civilians killed in Israel, but this report f...
by golem
Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:29 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: 500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground
Replies: 657
Views: 35623

500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground

<t>OpenMind wrote: The Lebanese civilians cannot do anything but pray. Should a nation be targetted for the sake of the minority?<br/> <br/> <br/> The nation is not being targeted. The analogy is an operation to remove a cancer. The body inevitably receives some incidental injury in the process.</t>
by golem
Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:28 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: 500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground
Replies: 657
Views: 35623

500,000 Lebanese flee the carnage: Israelis killed in first firefight on the ground

Bez wrote:
Blame everyone that believes lives are cheap

Blame everyone that has hatred in their hearts

Blame everyone that justifies war because of their greed, religious or political beliefs


OK, blame hezballah AND hammas then.
by golem
Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:58 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Israel and Lebannon
Replies: 30
Views: 2224

Israel and Lebannon

<t>gmc wrote: <br/> <br/> There may be more to this war than people recognise but Israel is leaving no alternative for itself but warfare which is exactly what extremists on both sides want to have. <br/> <br/> <br/> If you honestly believe that then you are totally mistaken and have no knowledge an...
by golem
Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:59 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Israel and Lebannon
Replies: 30
Views: 2224

Israel and Lebannon

<t>Adam Zapple wrote: Sorry, no offense intended. Trying to inject the arab mindset (of some) not my own.<br/> <br/> <br/> Actually I realised that, and it did give me a laugh!<br/> <br/> And thanks for the good wishes for my and my families safety. I’m notionally in the reserve and my son is on h...
by golem
Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:32 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Israel and Lebannon
Replies: 30
Views: 2224

Israel and Lebannon

I can't argue with any of that.

Nor would I want to.

Well maybe the "Jewish Pigs" could have been put differently, but I know what you mean.
by golem
Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:57 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Israel and Lebannon
Replies: 30
Views: 2224

Israel and Lebannon

<t>There have been a succession of rocket attacks from Gaza as well as incursions across our border with Lebanon. <br/> <br/> We gave the palests the rope, what they chose to do with it was up to them. They could have gone down the road towards a peaceful co-existence, they chose not. So be it.<br/>...
by golem
Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:30 pm
Forum: General Chit Chat
Topic: lobsters
Replies: 23
Views: 1229

lobsters

If people realised the things that lobsters eat they would not be so quick to eat lobster.
by golem
Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:27 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Israel and Lebannon
Replies: 30
Views: 2224

Israel and Lebannon

<t>The palests and their supporters have brought this on themselves by constantly attacking us. The constant attacks, the rocket attacks, the funding of terrorists to attack us, the training of terrorists to atack us, it’s reached its break point when hezballah forces broke our borders and took pr...
by golem
Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:21 pm
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Just go and kill yourself, there's a good boy.
Replies: 35
Views: 4422

Just go and kill yourself, there's a good boy.

<t>It’s a bad mistake to confuse the evil cult of Islam with the many many decent people who live decent lives in spite of being under the claw.<br/> <br/> Just as so many seemingly devout Christian people are in life real SOB’s and how so many of my people ignore The Law of Moses yet still clai...
by golem
Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:25 pm
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Just go and kill yourself, there's a good boy.
Replies: 35
Views: 4422

Just go and kill yourself, there's a good boy.

<t>spot wrote: Partly it's seeing the dozens of hours I put into fundraising with the local Christian churches, to help improve the local mosque facilities, brushed aside as a pointless waste of time by this continual drip-drip-drip of bilious hatred coming continuously from the same "expert" on Isl...
by golem
Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:24 pm
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Just go and kill yourself, there's a good boy.
Replies: 35
Views: 4422

Just go and kill yourself, there's a good boy.

spot wrote: Quite simply, little man, I don't believe that for a moment.


Try learning first hand whatr filth islam is to the modern world.

Loke I wrote, know the tree by its fruit.
by golem
Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:46 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Just go and kill yourself, there's a good boy.
Replies: 35
Views: 4422

Just go and kill yourself, there's a good boy.

<t>onsekiz wrote: I believe no religion is destructive to humanity. It's about the people who doesn't understand their religion. <br/> <br/> My ancestors fought against people believing different religions. And got bad treatment from them. But i never blamed their religion for that. Only radicals do...
by golem
Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:45 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Just go and kill yourself, there's a good boy.
Replies: 35
Views: 4422

Just go and kill yourself, there's a good boy.

<t>Muslim clerics are adapt at making words mean what they want them to mean. The Innocent for example in islam doesn’t mean the same as the innocent in the non-islamic world, nor does the word terrorist.<br/> <br/> The use of the term ‘religion of peace’ is another phrase that must be underst...
by golem
Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:11 pm
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Radical Islam in Somalia
Replies: 31
Views: 4649

Radical Islam in Somalia

Western civilisation owes a great deal to people who incidentally happened to be Muslim, there is damm little in islam per se that has been of any use whatsoever.
by golem
Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:03 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Radical Islam in Somalia
Replies: 31
Views: 4649

Radical Islam in Somalia

<t>gmc wrote: So share your knowledge. Stop trying to be enigmatic or are you trying to claim that what you know is so esoteric that only a few are capable of understanding? <br/> <br/> Not so long ago people used to know the earth was flat and that the earth was the centre of the universe. This kno...
by golem
Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:15 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Radical Islam in Somalia
Replies: 31
Views: 4649

Radical Islam in Somalia

<t>gmc wrote: posted by Bryn Mawr<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> From the Oxford English Dictionary<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> I don't profess to speak for Bryn Mawr but I don't believe she was pointing to any error, rather pointing out that that you have a bigoted viewpoint.<br/> <br/> posted by go...
by golem
Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:59 am
Forum: General Chit Chat
Topic: Where's Your Sanctuary?
Replies: 40
Views: 2683

Where's Your Sanctuary?

<t>theia wrote: Why do you have to constantly criticise the UK, golem?<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> I love Devon, too, Helefra,. It's said that Cornwall has a beautiful coastline, but Devon has the more beautiful countryside.<br/> <br/> <br/> Partially because it warrants being criticised precisely for th...
by golem
Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:03 am
Forum: General Chit Chat
Topic: Where's Your Sanctuary?
Replies: 40
Views: 2683

Where's Your Sanctuary?

Italy, South of France, but under no circumstances the UK.

Over priced, dirty, very poor value, very poor service, geneally a dump.

Sorry, I simply can't stomach the place or the majority of the people that I have encountered.
by golem
Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:59 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Radical Islam in Somalia
Replies: 31
Views: 4649

Radical Islam in Somalia

Bryn Mawr wrote: Posting it in the first place!


So it's the condemnation of islam that you object to?

Tough.
by golem
Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:50 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Radical Islam in Somalia
Replies: 31
Views: 4649

Radical Islam in Somalia

Bryn Mawr wrote: If anyone wrote this kind of rant about Judaeism they'd be condemned from here to eternaty as an anti-semitic bastard of the worst kind.

Why do you think it's OK for you to do so?

It's bigotry of the first order.


Point out any error.
by golem
Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:32 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Radical Islam in Somalia
Replies: 31
Views: 4649

Radical Islam in Somalia

<r>onsekiz wrote: She was 18 when Muhammad married her. She was engaged with someone else but they did not get married because of religious difference. Muhammed wanted to marry her 10 years after the start of apocalypse. Aisha was born seven years before start of apocalypse. <br/> <br/> He could not...
by golem
Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:38 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Radical Islam in Somalia
Replies: 31
Views: 4649

Radical Islam in Somalia

<t>How old was his child bride when he impregnated her?<br/> <br/> And is it not in the hadiths that telling lies is the appropriate course of action for dealing with certain contingencies?<br/> <br/> And ccould he really not write?<br/> <br/> And how about how he dropped the so called Satanic Verse...
by golem
Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:20 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Radical Islam in Somalia
Replies: 31
Views: 4649

Radical Islam in Somalia

<t>I stand by absolute assertion that there is no place in the modern world for islam.<br/> <br/> It is not simply a religion like any other, it is a repressive regressive philosophy, more a cult than a religion.<br/> <br/> At the age of 60 my own view is now that all religion is so much rubbish, it...
by golem
Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:54 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Little Mister Apricot flips off crowd, loses title
Replies: 29
Views: 2455

Little Mister Apricot flips off crowd, loses title

<t>Lulu2 wrote: Ummmm...golem....do you actually HAVE children? Because I can tell you, that..as far as parenthood is concerned, we can have a plan but, in many cases, we do NOT have control!<br/> <br/> And much of what children do is designed to deliberately make us F#$%ing crazy!<br/> <br/> And al...
by golem
Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:48 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Little Mister Apricot flips off crowd, loses title
Replies: 29
Views: 2455

Little Mister Apricot flips off crowd, loses title

BabyRider wrote: I still woulda' laughed my ass off!!!


To be perfectly honest, if it was someone else's kid, so would I!
by golem
Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:38 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Little Mister Apricot flips off crowd, loses title
Replies: 29
Views: 2455

Little Mister Apricot flips off crowd, loses title

<t>If my son had done something of the kind I would have been utterly ashamed of myself for not instilling better behaviour into him, utterly ashamed of myself for the shame he had brought on our whole family by having such an objectionable little horror, and utterly ashamed of HIM for what he had d...
by golem
Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:22 am
Forum: International Politics
Topic: Radical Islam in Somalia
Replies: 31
Views: 4649

Radical Islam in Somalia

<t>Not to mention female 'circumcision'. Not a specific directive in islam, but interpretation of the koranic verses are used to justify the practice.<br/> <br/> O well know that we are frequently criticized for practicing male circumcision, but there are well proven medical advantages to it and the...
by golem
Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:36 pm
Forum: General Chit Chat
Topic: Should a life sentence mean LIFE.
Replies: 175
Views: 9413

Should a life sentence mean LIFE.

<t>The issue is the ratio of guilty to innocent who get convicted, especially with the new forms of evidence that can be used and by that I mean mostly DNA though the ability to trace links in various ways is particularly applicable in cases of terrorism has changed the ground rules of the detection...

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