Wednesday, August 20, 2014
The rise of the appy savage
Their mentality and overall religious outlook is straight out of the 1400's yet they know how to upload videos to YouTube, cave-dwelling techno-savages who even make trendy and newsy references to events in Ferguson, MO. Next thing you know they'll be blogging. I thought YouTube like all mainstream websites of this nature have a TOS, you know you can't just submit a video say of how much you hate N-words or harass your ex-girlfriend so why is it technically ok for ISIS to upload a video showing the beheading of freelance US reporter James Foley? Various Islamic terror elements also take to Twitter, Twitter feeds, Twitter accounts - they've finally joined the Twitterverse those religious troglodytes! Now libs spend a good part of every waking day concerned about the threat posed by the Religious Right (oooooohhh!) but when was the last time Pat Robertson beheaded an American professor who passionately teaches evolution and then put it on YouTube? ISIS has said the beheading was in retaliation for US airstrikes, they just lost control of the Mosul Dam and the peshmerga are on the move so this is their way of making a Statement. Obama needs to keep pounding away however and I don't see how after such an atrocity you can rule out boots on the ground which should give McCain's heart a flutter or two. So stop worrying about Pat Robertson and Gary Bauer and start worrying about ISIS coming to a mall near you:)
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Just saw Rev. Pat on his morning show today: he wants to start a revolution because some nurse asked him what drugs he was taking to fill out her form when
ReplyDeletehe was in for 'minor surgery. I am somewhat of a lib, and my take is that fundy is fundy, be it Evangelical or Muslim. BTW, speaking of Christians, we have Robin
Williams, Episcopalian, listing his 10 reasons why:
10. No snake handling.
9. You can believe in dinosaurs.
8. Male and female God created them; male and female we ordain them.
7. You don't have to check your brains at the door.
6. Pew aerobics.
5. Church year is color-coded.
4. Free wine on Sunday.
3. All of the pageantry - none of the guilt.
2. You don't have to know how to swim to get baptized.
1. No matter what you believe, there's bound to be at least one other Episcopalian who agrees with you.
Mosul Dam- my son in law served there 2.5 years ago. Times change....
Another variant - Robin Williams on Episcopalians and the Catholic Church: "same rituals, half the guilt."
DeleteGaza, the Ukraine, ISIS, Ferguson, even a military junta in Thailand. What in hell is going on with the world? It's always been bad but...
ReplyDeleteHumans are one of the few species to kill each other routinely, singly and in groups;
ReplyDeletesince the caveman discovered the club. Violence, empathy & rationalization/in group-out group. Rationalization: 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' is listed as the 6th or 7th commandment, surpassed by keeping the Sabbath, graven images, etc. in the Judeo
Christian paradigm. Only psychopaths kill for the fun of it, but self-defense and just
war, along with groupthink provide 'reasons' to salve the conscience: the Gestapo
thought they were doing the right thing, the US prompted Wounded Knee to 'protect
Americans' etc, etc, etc. Revenge is a most human tendency as well. There is a stigma in not fighting for your group (or country) such that over 6000 mostly Quakers & Jehovah Witnesses chose to go to jail in the US during WW2 (with many others taking jobs in service hospitals), a stigma clouded
with cowardice when considering the draft-dodging during VN. Humans are hugely
developed species, but we carry the ancient DNA from the days when we wiped out
the goldarned Neaderthals. Seems its what we do.
ISIS needs to be extirpated. The thought occurred IS is obviously using technology (e.g. uploading a video to YouTube), NSA knows all about our techno uses hence...GPS, triangulation, Echelon and God knows what else so can't we zero in somehow and in addition to the airstrikes do something? Gosh a Mom just made an app where you can remotely lock your kid's smartphone until he or she calls you back.
ReplyDeleteI am far more concerned about getting shot by militarized police, drunk (or sober) rednecks, or wannabe soldier militias.
ReplyDeleteI think the statistics will bear me out on this one.
In a way you're right but the world is a big place and it depends on your geographic area.
DeleteWhat are all the world leaders on vacation? Cameron just cut short his. Imagine Churchill playing a round of golf.
ReplyDeleteTwo things: IS has now moved to the decentralized social network Diaspora since Twitter has finally been cracking down. Two: according to TX Gov. Rick Perry ISIS members may have already crossed the Texas border and be in this country. Many European nationals and even many Americans have joined the ISIS crusade.
ReplyDeleteYou think we should insert the NYPD/Ferguson cops into the Syrian-Iraq
Deleteborder?
& throw in a few urban pitbulls. Another option: blasting Tiny Tim music to confound the enemy. Is there a terrorist appstore?
DeleteTiny Tim; singing 'Tiptoe Through The Landmines' while strumming a
Deletetoy ukulele. Heck, I'd throw up my hands and turn myself in.
Of interest to me is the whole business of these religious savages using Foley's parents' e-mail address. This would be the time for the NSA to shine instead of bothering us regular folk.
ReplyDeleteAm finishing reading a book on the Gestapo: they had a finger on everything, no electronic snooping, just a ton of informants. They didn't waste time on evidence and trials either. My guess, at least 5% of those
Deleteexecuted were guilty of something.
A possible round of airstrikes or even all-out invasion of northern Syria borders be damned - is that John McCain humping Obama's leg? Hamas also doesn't believe in due process.
ReplyDeleteKind of interesting, a cougar kitten showed up on a front porch up Sasquatch country. F & G thought mother was dead, but couldn't find her, the tyke
ReplyDeletewas malnourished, but probably did better in town than he would have up country.
I betcha those Sasquatch cubs are cute.
ReplyDeleteWe go from the profundity of the world situation to the most stupid music video I ever saw - "Anaconda" starring Nicki Minaj. I'm ashamed to say I watched it twice on my tablet yesterday. "I got a fat ass" and then she lap dances Drake. VEVO it old-timer.
ReplyDeleteRan across a comment on the blogs that went, "If Dick Cheney, Chris Matthews and the Pope all want to bomb ISIS, that must be a green light. Meanwhile, we have Qatar (highest GDP/capita in the world) lurking around freeing western hostages.
ReplyDeleteWe got a TV series here?
The Pope has also indicated in two or three years time he may pull a Benedict.
DeleteSeriously my biggest concern right now is the absolutely stunning epidemic of police brutality. It's getting to a point where if I feel like I'm getting unwell I might decide to go to the hospital just to keep me out of the potential police eye. I'm not being dramatic.
ReplyDeleteIn other news I am learning to play the recorder. I spent several years in fife and drum as a kid (did well with it too) so the learning curve isn't quite as steep as it could be. One of the doctors I work with plays and she is thrilled to pieces that I'm getting into it. Basically just a benign distraction from everything we've gone through lately.
Well with so many police departments having all this surplus military equipment at their disposal the temptation to play Robocop is very strong. Maybe Google can create the perfect police officer.
DeleteMeanwhile Alex Jones finds the beheading video questionable, some British analytical group says there's a good chance it may have been staged and ex-London rapper Bary may not be the real killer. If you notice Sotloff is still alive as far as we know. Will this give McCain and the neocons pause? when did it ever?
ReplyDeleteWhere is Aaron Sofer ?
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the link I don't know that the family is being entirely fair here. Speaking of Hamas I was reading how they're trying to remake the brand. Not only have they distanced themselves from ISIS but a leader now says they want to warn Israeli citizens before they start sending rockets into Israel. Re the three murdered Israeli teens they finally admit it was Hamas but low-level Hamas and not Hamas political leadership. I hope nobody's buying this bullshit in a sack.
DeleteLapierre's latest NRA slogan: Guns don't kill people little girls do
ReplyDeleteOn the flipside recent research indicates white racists didn't mess with black activists who were well-armed in pre-civil rights days and this actually helped the cause. Just considering:)
DeleteWhite Privelege (which doesn't exist according to O'Reilly): punching a cop in the face while being arrested and not being shot to death for it.
ReplyDeleteThat's pitiful.
A real conservative calibrates his perspective every now and then according to socio-cultural/political trends. In other words if Eric Garner were white...
DeleteIf there were any real conservatives, would we have Huckabee?
DeleteYou have him and you have Planned Parenthood endorsing 50 Shades of Gray. Personally I'm depressed.
DeleteYou would think that would lead to far less teenage sex. Whatever the
Deletereasons, teenage births are now the lowest since the mid 1940s . My guess, economics-what 15 year old mother can afford a child?.
Another partial theory: maybe all these smartphones are giving young girls something to do besides letting their boyfriends plow them on the couch. Maybe watching the latest Ariana Grande/Iggy Azalea music video is more a priority.
DeleteSmartphone virtual sex?
DeleteEverybody loaded on Anthony Weiner but when you stop to think about it technically he never went through with the sex, never got anyone pregnant or passed along an STD. Last I checked he's opening a restaurant in Queens or something (insert jokes).
DeleteOf course there's an app for that.
DeleteRestaurant name, dunno..Mr. Godiva's Weiner Place ?
I can't believe Peter King is saying the terrorists would respect us more if Obama didn't wear that tan suit the other day. Must be the silly season.
ReplyDeleteRe the crisis in Ukraine I read a religious conservative analysis last night that it's all George Soros' fault. Also Putin is kinda a swell guy because he lectured the West on its moral perversions and wants to return Mother Russia to its Christian roots. Will there still be vodka?
ReplyDeleteExcept for the last few years, Ukraine has always been under the thumb of
Deleteothers, (The Scythians, the Golden Horde, the Kievian Viking Rus). Stalin
did away with 6-8 million in the Ukraine in the 30s. The Nazis eviscerated
the place during WWII. IMO, their problems arise from more than Mr. Soros,
and Mr. ex KGB Putin doesn't seem the churchy type of guy, ya know?
Is George Soros a cousin to the Koch Bros?
Most Crimeans wanted to be annexed and as for the eastern and southern part of Ukraine they tilt that way too. It's a tug-of-war between the EU and Putin but Putin holds a mean natural gas card.
DeleteSeems like just yesterday we went through the same thing with the Serbs,
DeleteCroats, Slavs and Montenegrans. ..and on it goes.
I would submit this: there's not much Obama can do about Ukraine short of some extra sanctions against Russia. He needs to focus on ISIS in northern Syria. The world waits while he intellectualizes like Hamlet and while he may not have a strategy yet he's giving IS an opportunity to develop one. If as you said Cheney and the Pope and Chris Matthews says do it now what's the problem?
ReplyDeleteHe is waiting for Rumsfeld.
DeleteSadly I think it's still the Ghost of Iraq.
DeleteSo how is Obama's golf game? Is he any good? What's his handicap?
ReplyDeleteHe is a southpaw. Does that make his hook a slice?
DeleteNow we're trying to make a shish kabob out of Al Shebab . IMO, drones seem better than Blackhawk Down,
ReplyDeleteya know?
That ISIS is starting to irritate me. Latest is they stated that if we drone them, they will cut off captives heads, a regular old tit for tat, eye for an eye thing. Conversely,
ReplyDeletethey invite a drone with every swing of the damascene sword. What do you say we
let them form their bizarre caliphate out there in the Syrian desert, the accidently
nuke the place?
You know it's funny I had that exact same thought. Shouldn't Obama be speaking to the nation right about now maybe right after Judge Judy?
DeleteTurns out Mr. Sotloff the second American journalist beheaded by ISIS was also an Israeli citizen. So where is the NSA in all of this and can't maybe our hacker friends do something useful and hack away at some useful terror info? Obama needs a touch of Bibi, just a touch.
ReplyDeleteObama is truly a disappointment here and by his continued inaction in northern Syria he is endangering the lives of all Americans both here and abroad. Even Rand Paul is for military action. Obama needs for some general to ream him out.
ReplyDeleteGiven our track record and results , I'm gonna go with thinking a bit rather than another half cocked 'boots on the ground' circus.
Delete#1: no doubt the Ghost of Iraq is haunting American foreign policy here. The bad part of this is that it may cause us not to engage in a necessary war because of the track results from the Bush adventure. #2: how many more Western or American hostages have to be beheaded before you say let's go in there? In this case which is special how much thinking can you do? Two American hostages were savagely beheaded by ISIS, that in itself is a declaration of war against the United States. Endless thinking doesn't lead to justice and makes Obama appear weak.
DeleteSaty brings up the issue of police brutality and how that's more of a threat in her eyes. However the two recent beheadings of American journalists eclipse even that in importance and urgency imo. The big fear: if ISIS comes here and starts beheading Americans you'll forget about abuse by the men in blue in a hurry. There are two schools of thought about IS: (a) they are a direct threat to the US and (b) they are not a direct threat to the US. I can respect both opinions and God knows Middle Eastern terrorism is a complicated subject but if we operate under assumption (b) and they do turn out to be a threat what an error we've made!!! You might make the case better to err on the side of caution.
DeleteRemember 9-11? We went after the wrong people in the wrong country
Delete(and that was 3000 New Yorkers, rather than 2 foreign correspondents).
ISIS would love to be a direct threat to the US, no doubt: and that would
bring out the full arsenal. The question is, how do we eradicate a raving
bunch of would-be caliphate makers without once again screwing up?
This is going to put us on the side of Syria (yeah, the bunch the GOP wanted to invade a couple months back) and probably Iran. Arm the Kurds? They ARE Muslims after all. Times were so simple a generation back: a couple hundred Cuban airport workers, invade the itty bitty island.
Air Traffic controllers uppity: fire the whole lot. Let's have a plan lottery-
turn 'em in, best one wins a million bucks.
So if I understand you correctly if you were president you would not bomb ISIS in northern Syria just because two of our foreign correspondents were murdered and at first I thought we were just debating the logistics of it all. You also seem to be equating IS with the JV Squad of terrorism ala Obama's past now-regretted comment. I've been doing some serious wikipedi-ing the last couple of days and roughly IS has 50,000 fighters in Syria and 30,000 in Iraq and we all know they're good at the social media thing and recruiting foreign fighters. This is complicated and it's gonna take another comment.
Delete& it's not just Iran arming the Kurds Germany is definitely on board and I can't help thinking in back of my head maybe Putin somehow has dreams of filling in the American leadership vacuum by saving the day in the Middle East. He's friends with Assad after all for lack of a better phrase. Remember now ISIS really began as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) headed then by al-Zarqawi who personally beheaded two of our Americans and that was in 2004 so I say we really do have a long-standing grievance here with IS. The conflicts between various terror factions is interesting though. For instance IS has in the past done combat with Hezbollah in Lebanon even though both hate Israel and Hezbollah is far more dangerous with its military power re Israel than Hamas currently is according to the scholars. So I guess what I'm saying is just because we need SparkNotes to understand the whole thing does that mean we do nothing?
DeleteRemember, we armed Bin Laden back in the 80s to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan,
ReplyDeletethe well worn 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'. These groups shift and dodge so quickly (ISIS was one of several groups fighing Bashar el Assad in Syria) and there seem to be dozens of semi-barbaric groups operating (we got the leader of
Al Shabab earlier in the week. It seems logical to attempt to turn the groups against
each other as much as possible, rather than blindly 'McCaining' the area and uniting
all these yahoos. If you have read Petreaus, you suspect that every time we wipe out a flock of collateral, or relatives, we create five times more terrorists. Back in the Eisenhower days, the CIA backed the Shah in Iran and they are still royally pissed:
60 years later. We are the free world leader by default, we have wasted lives and fortunes screwing up and making things worse. I reiterate, IMO, we need think things through thoroughly for once. Yeah, bombing might soften them up (like we did Hanoi-more TNT tonnage than WWII and that whole thing Kissingered out), but
we need a bunch of allies on the same page, including Putin who has his own Chechen variety of thuggish ones. You think we need a regimental combat team
traveling with each reporter?
Well in the interim while we're thinking 'bout five more hostages will have their videos uploaded and Biden will intone about the gates of hell.
ReplyDeleteNow for Rand Paul IS meets the threshold of the Weinberger Doctrine so we do air strikes in Syria. I'd say Mr. Paul thinks things through no?
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