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Why do they always term these Muslim terrorists "deranged" and "cowardly"? They are neither.

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As I write, eight are dead - all men, five Argentines, one Belgian, all in the path of an Uzbek Muslim who decided to take a Home Depot pick-up truck down the bike path for 20 blocks mowing down bicycle after bicycle after bicycle before exiting the vehicle and yelling - go on, take a wild guess - "Allahu Akbar!" Well, I never! You could knock me over with a feather duster

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"Why do they always term these Muslim terrorists 'deranged' and 'cowardly'? They are neither."

That cowardly accusation in particular just drives me nuts.

Whatever else these attacks might be, they are decidedly not cowardly.

#1 JJM on 2017-11-01 07:22 (Reply)

Eh, I'm going with yes on the cowardly. It is cowardly to kill unarmed women and children. It's 'deranged' that I've got a problem with. Satan is real and these half retards worship him. Evil must be rightly identified if it is to be fought. Evil is real.

#1.1 Fred on 2017-11-01 08:47 (Reply)

Your point about unarmed victims is taken but on the other hand, those Islamic "terrorists" are willing to die for their cause.

I also think their primary motivation is to rid the world of infidels not instill fear or terror. That being the case, I think the term "terrorist" is not entirely accurate.

#1.1.1 mudbug on 2017-11-01 10:19 (Reply)

How about we call them radical Islamist exterminators?

#1.1.1.1 BillH on 2017-11-01 10:45 (Reply)

Works for me, but another question is if the Islamic "exterminators" are the radical ones or not. Islam has been at war (off and on) with the West since Mohamed died. Other than the present, most notably during the 700s finally stopped by Charles Martel and in the 1700s stopped by Thomas Jefferson. The leaders of Islamic aggression cite the Koran. Of course there are significant populations (majority?) of Muslims who are peaceful and in many ways practice deportment that is in line with Western values. I think the tenor of some (maybe all) religions is defined by the parts of holy books that are emphasized and the parts are minimized or ignored.

#1.1.1.1.1 mudbug on 2017-11-01 15:18 (Reply)

Agreed on the term. islam is a political ideology of conquest which has one aspect that is military. They use politics and social change to fight as well. The winner writes the history and they never call themselves terrorists.

#1.1.1.2 Fred on 2017-11-01 11:38 (Reply)

I'd certainly buy despicable act but not cowardly act.

The perpetrators of these attacks have already decided that a likely outcome will be their own deaths.

Such decisions take courage, no matter how misplaced or deluded it might be.

#1.1.1.3 JJM on 2017-11-01 11:38 (Reply)

I'm not afraid to die for my God either but bravery in battle or evangelism and mowing down the unarmed are not the same thing.

And YES, suicide, which is what this amounts to in most cases, is COWARDLY. It's the easy way out. The weak have been lied to about their everlasting station and chosen to be weaker still.

#1.1.1.3.1 Fred on 2017-11-01 11:50 (Reply)

"[B]ravery in battle or evangelism and mowing down the unarmed are not the same thing."

So then the US Marines who took Iwo Jima were brave but the crew of the Enola Gay were cowards? I see.

#1.1.1.3.1.1 JJM on 2017-11-01 11:54 (Reply)

I didn't say that it wasn't tragic, I said that it is weakness. Weakness exacerbated, I might add, by being lied to by the devil.

#1.1.1.3.1.1.1 Fred on 2017-11-01 12:33 (Reply)

"It is cowardly to kill unarmed women and children."

So the destruction of Hiroshima was a cowardly act?

#1.1.2 JJM on 2017-11-01 11:22 (Reply)

Rightful self defense is not cowardice. The debate about using nukes to end that war may never end. I'm of the opinion that we were attacked and used all means at our disposal.

In fact, refusal to defend oneself, ie; outsourcing it to the police, is a cowardly act. Gun controllers are cowards because they refuse to accept responsibility for their own welfare, as an example.

#1.1.2.1 Fred on 2017-11-01 11:43 (Reply)

Hmm... I seem to have struck a nerve.

When they kill women and children it's a cowardly act.

When we do, it's "rightful self defense".

#1.1.2.1.1 JJM on 2017-11-01 11:51 (Reply)

I am not actually the one who proposed that it "is cowardly to kill unarmed women and children".

I suggest you take up that discussion with Fred.

#1.1.2.1.1.1 JJM on 2017-11-01 12:02 (Reply)

Oops!

That last was meant as a response to drowningpuppies at #1.1.2.2.

#1.1.2.1.1.1.1 JJM on 2017-11-01 12:04 (Reply)

But you asked the question quoted.

#1.1.2.1.1.1.2 drowningpuppies on 2017-11-01 12:13 (Reply)

I did.

Because Fred's assertion invited such a comparison.

When politicos flap their gums about "cowardly acts" they're using the oldest and least credible excuse in history: our enemies are all cowards because - boohoo! - they won't fight fair and square.

The Islamic extremists we are confronted may be many things. But they are no cowards.

They have adjusted their tactics in a bloody-minded and ruthless attempt to counter or outflank our overwhelming conventional superiority over them and have proved rather ingenious at it in many ways (e.g. turning a commercial aircraft into a cruise missile and then striking at New York).

#1.1.2.1.1.1.2.1 JJM on 2017-11-01 12:34 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Because Fred's assertion invited such a comparison.

So you rendered your argument moot with your logical fallacy.

#1.1.2.1.1.1.2.1.1 drowningpuppies on 2017-11-01 12:47 (Reply)

I'm satisfied with my responses, thanks.

#1.1.2.1.1.1.2.1.1.1 JJM on 2017-11-01 13:31 (Reply)

Well, of course you are.
You're welcome.

#1.1.2.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1 drowningpuppies on 2017-11-01 13:41 (Reply)

QUOTE:

So the destruction of Hiroshima was a cowardly act?

That's a logical fallacy worthy of the Zzzz.
Shouldn't you ask an American GI preparing for the invasion of Japan that question before making a judgment?

#1.1.2.2 drowningpuppies on 2017-11-01 11:57 (Reply)

I can help with that. I never knew either of my grandfathers as they both died before my parents adopted me. But when I was a teenager I began painting dorms and such for my local community college. The foreman of my work crew was a WWII vet who was in the Philippines during the 1945 run-up to the invasion of Japan. He told me many times that if Truman hadn't authorized the bomb that my foreman wouldn't have survived the war. He was certain he would have been killed landing in Japan in the fall of 1945. He died a couple of years ago, so he can't tell my history classes his story any more. I do, though. They are free to reject it, but it is a story that should be told.

#1.1.2.2.1 Dangerous Dean on 2017-11-01 14:42 (Reply)

My uncle and my cousin were on navy ships headed for Japan when the nukes were dropped. They had spent the entire war in the Pacific theater and it was miraculous that they survived the four years. But it was unlikely they would have survived the assault on Japan.

IMHO those two nukes saved millions (some estimates are 20 million Japanese and 1-2 million Americans and allies). It was the best thing that could have happened to Japan. The alternative would have been unthinkable.

My best friend is married to a Japanese woman whose mother was injured at Hiroshima. Consequently I say nothing about the war or the nukes to either of them. I do not believe she actually realizes that the leaders of Japan intended to repel the invaders at all costs, including using children and women to fight and to encourage mass suicide. She only knows about the harm the bombs caused because Japan strictly controls what is taught about the history of WW II. Ironically her mother lived into her 80's and would have likely died in an invasion.

#1.1.2.2.1.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-11-01 18:52 (Reply)

So, JJM, When your riding your bike and I run your ass over at 50mph in my pickup, without you knowing a fucking thing about it, that's not cowardly?

I guess I'm just a brave guy with attitude problems?

Take out your stupid fucking paint ball gun, flag down a cruising NYPD car and point it at them. Then you can be a deranged and brave and a fucking asshole Muslim terrorist, all at the same time.

Moron.

#1.2 Scullman on 2017-11-01 11:47 (Reply)

Sorry, I don't respond to ad hominem ranting.

Good day to you!

#1.2.1 JJM on 2017-11-01 11:57 (Reply)

Aren't you the guy who lives in Germany?

You got some balls telling us who is, and who isn't a fucking coward Muslim bastard for killing innocent people here in my fucking city.

You want to be a lawyer for these fucking bastards go do it somewhere else.

Fuck you! And try doing something about the Muslim mess you've made in your own country before you shoot off you big mouth about what's happening here.

Moron.

#1.2.1.1 Scullman on 2017-11-01 12:03 (Reply)

Please refer to my last posting to you.

#1.2.1.1.1 JJM on 2017-11-01 12:05 (Reply)

Douche.

#1.2.1.1.1.1 Scullman on 2017-11-01 12:06 (Reply)

Americans--THOSE WHO ARE FOOLS WITH THEIR MONEY--have stopped eating leftovers. It's no big deal, those were leftovers from the takeout they bought last week because they were too lazy and impecunious to cook something at home.

Folks who regularly prepare their own meals soon develop their own "food ecology" with a core set of ingredients to a healthy variety of dishes. And everything leftover is just another ingredient for tomorrow's dish. Tomorrow's HOMECOOKED dish, the preparation of which anchors the family social ecology, but that's another story.

#2 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2017-11-01 08:34 (Reply)

Home cooking with simple and fresh ingredients tastes so much better and it's healthier and it's cheaper. I wonder what the true cost of fast food is when later health consequences are factored.

#2.1 Fred on 2017-11-01 08:41 (Reply)

It is a common and popular belief that fast food is unhealthy and home cooked is healthy/magic. Common and popular but simply wrong.

#2.1.1 OneGuy on 2017-11-01 18:56 (Reply)

I live for leftovers! Plus, many foods I make in vast quantities - soups, stews, chili. Which is easily reheatable in the microwave and typically tastes better the 2nd day.

I think really this is about people who don't cook. The 'leftovers' they are talking about are fast food or chinese take-out leftovers, which are kinda gross the next day. I mean, how many people want to heat up an oven to 350 and put their leftover fried chicken or french fries in the oven to crisp them up a second day?

Not many.

Most think if you can't microwave something, why bother?

Luckily, my college-age daughter has been cooking for herself for awhile now and has learned the trick of cooking ahead, storing meals and reheating. Everyone should learn how to do this.

#2.2 MissT on 2017-11-01 12:53 (Reply)

I love leftovers from either home-cooked or restaurant food, with the exception of some things that wilt or get soggy. Salads often don't last well, for instance, especially after they're dressed. Some fried food re-heats well, but some doesn't. Most soups and stews are better the next day.

Chef Mark Ruhlman said that good restaurant food is essentially the art of serving leftovers well. Restaurants can't cook everything at the last minute. They have to get good at mostly-cooking a lot of things that can be combined wonderfully at the last minute.

#2.2.1 Texan99 on 2017-11-02 22:37 (Reply)

When they say Americans, I think they mean Millennials.

#2.3 Ken in NH on 2017-11-01 13:35 (Reply)

DNC Hiring For Its Tech Team, Won’t Consider Candidates Who Are “Cisgender Straight White Males”…

So just lie.

Nah, given that I wouldn't want to work there, lying about my gender and skin color (and my age, most likely0 would just be the beginning of the sort of miserable crap I'd have to put up with.

#3 steve walsh on 2017-11-01 09:17 (Reply)

Was that Seth Rich fellow a cisgender straight white male?

#3.1 drowningpuppies on 2017-11-01 13:06 (Reply)

good question. That is why his employment was terminated, and the video surveillance of the area where he was arkancided and his laptop have been "fired".

#3.1.1 jaybird on 2017-11-01 18:41 (Reply)

"Allahu Akbar!" Mother Fuckers.

Kill them all and the Lord will know his own.

#4 tennesseered on 2017-11-01 09:38 (Reply)

> DNC Hiring For Its Tech Team...

So basically they don't want exactly the kind of people who are best at the sorts of problems they claim to need solved.

Ok.

Self correcting problem.

#5 William O. B'Livion on 2017-11-01 11:46 (Reply)

Yes.

And because the Pakistanis worked out so well for Wasserman-Schultz.

#5.1 feeblemind on 2017-11-01 17:33 (Reply)

The Dems are following Schumer's "diversity lottery" idea, which is to grant citizenship to those who otherwise couldn't get into the US. So the Dems will hire by lottery from a pool of applicants who otherwise couldn't get a job doing tech. There is a big pool of feminist applicants coming out of the Education Department of the University of Illinois, where al-gebra, pi, and Pathegoras are hated and forbidden as evil.
Such new hires will be so incompetent that there is little possibility that they would be able to leak from, or hack into, the Dem systems.
Viola, no Awan or Seth Rich problems111

#5.1.1 jaybird on 2017-11-01 19:04 (Reply)

I like leftovers.

#6 Sam L. on 2017-11-01 12:34 (Reply)

This Uzbek muslim guy is a total loser. He literally won the lottery. Not only the "Diversity" lottery, but entry into the United States, the greatest country on earth. But this loser could make anything of his fortune in the United States. Instead he just became resentful and decided to make a futile gesture by killing some people. What a loser.

#7 JK Brown on 2017-11-01 12:56 (Reply)

He is the victim of very effective propaganda and brainwashing by radical Islam. This is no different from what America's race baiters do and it creates BLM, Kaepernick and assorted other race hate groups. Do you imagine the "polar bear hunters" are really any different?

#7.1 IdahoBob on 2017-11-01 19:02 (Reply)

Why are you trying to excuse these losers. He's not a victim. He had the opportunity of lifetime but decided to be a loser instead. Millions around the world would like to come to the US so they could work to better themselves. This loser, like a the losers who do these things, blew his chance at success in the greatest country on earth. LOSER.

#7.1.1 JK Brown on 2017-11-01 21:09 (Reply)

You must define "excuse" very differently than Webster.

It is important to understand what is happening. This latest "lone wolf" was propagandized into this crime. First by his religion which embraces hate and hateful acts and second by terrorists who have put their propaganda on the web. It is important to understand this for the simple reason that this is just the beginning. You can choose to pick nits in the corner about the meaning of "is" or "victim" or whatever you need to grab onto to confuse the issue. But never the less the terrorists are actively and aggressively looking for more people to turn them into martyrs. Perhaps they aren't "victims", perhaps they are just stupid or bigots or... But I don't see how that argument prevents another lone wolf or puts more sunlight on the problem. We are going to see more and bigger lone wolf attacks. You are OK if I call them lone wolf attacks aren't you or are you going to nit pick that too?

#7.1.1.1 IdahoBob on 2017-11-01 21:54 (Reply)

Report from Navy regarding collisions just out.
text

Here is another interesting article about Navy fleet maintenance.

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2017/08/28/how-us-navy-fleet-has-been-on-collision-course-for-years/

Here is an interesting info regarding Norway Snubbing Sweden .
https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2016/04/28/norways-sub-snub-impacts-negatively-on-nordic-defense-cooperation/

#8 faculty wife on 2017-11-01 13:46 (Reply)

As to Trump Jr and candy: If he were really teaching socialism to his kid, he'd eat 5%, throw away 90% and give the rest (oh, maybe 40%?) to the New Californians to help them assimilate.

#9 dick parks on 2017-11-01 20:20 (Reply)

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