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At least Maher is equally offensive to everyone. If the muslims get pi$$ed about cartoons and suggested Koran burnings, he could lose his head on some dark and stormy night.
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Mr. Maher is a consummate ass, but he has spoken out very strongly since 9/11 -- and published at least one book -- about the threat of Muslim jihad. The gentleman doesn't hold back, even when he's wrong. I'm not surprised he spoke firmly to the honourable congressman.
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Meh, he's still near the top of my I want to punchhim in the face list.
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Note the audience is sitting on their hands during Maher's comments.
Posted by: regular joe ||
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Excellent. Finally something really politically incorrect. Coming from him, the message will get thru to people who normally don't get to hear it, much less contemplate it.
Maher is still an a$$4073 and plays for the other team, but like Jon Stewart, he is not so slavishly beholden to the lefty cause that he is completely unable to think for himself or use common sense.
Think of his younger audiences as future conservative/libertarian/common sense-itarian recruits.
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that riigght.
Posted by: Fire and Ice aka Fi ||
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DJ Curtis C, that is right. Sorry about the typo.
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[Dawn] The PPP is the Kamran Akmal of public relations. Put its representatives behind a microphone and they will flail and fumble over their words. It is one of the conundrums of our time, on a par with the continued existence and relevance of Zaid Hamid, how the likes of Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. can continue displaying rank insensitivity and political cowardice.
After the unsurprising yet shocking liquidation of minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti, the interior minister decided to make the brutal slaying all about himself. He wanted to assure the inquiring media not that the killers would be apprehended and brought to justice but that none of this was his fault. Washing your hands off something is one thing. Rehman Malik rinsed his hands with soap, bleached his fingernails and rubbed anti-septic all over his palms.
As an act of cowardice, Malik disavowing any responsibility for the security of Bhatti was an epic performance. He began by claiming that Bhatti had chosen not to stay in the parliamentary lodged, finding a rented home with his parents more secure. Malik also stressed that Bhatti voluntarily refused extra security. Never mind that the reason Bhatti felt so insecure was because the government had done nothing after Salmaan Taseer's murder to ensure that government guards were loyal to their bosses and not demagogic preachers.
After the governor's liquidation at the hands of his ostensible protectors, two PPP members were considered to be at the most risk. One, Shahbaz Bhatti, who has now been successfully eliminated and the other, Sherry Rehman, who still does not have the kind of security that would inspire confidence. And yet, Rehman Malik would have us believe, this was all Bhatti's fault.
Picking on Rehman Malik is easy but not entirely useful. The behaviour he has displayed over the last week is a mere symptom of the fear felt by the PPP leadership. The timidity shown by the party in the wake of Taseer's murder is unprecedented. Forget repealing the blasphemy law, the interior minister (who once again proudly showed off the worst instincts of his party with his unhinged rhetoric) declared that he would personally wring the neck of any blasphemer. This would be akin to George W Bush insisting that he would torture in Guantanamo anyone who said an unkind word about Mohammedan terrorists.
What makes the PPP's inaction so galling is not that we expect them to take instant action on the misuse of the blasphemy laws. After Benazir's two stints in power, the one thing we have learned is that the PPP will not back up its rhetoric with achievement. But now even the courageous rhetoric has vanished, replaced either with stony silence or, worse, a focus on the grievances of the murderers not the murdered.
Here's one way to measure the fear of the PPP leadership. Since the Aasiya Bibi case first made a media splash, Imran Khan ... who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker... and Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain have confessed that perhaps the blasphemy laws need to be reconsidered. Asif Zardari, Yousuf Raza Gilani and Rehman Malik, on the contrary, have not even expressed the level of ambivalence shown by these two politicians who relied on the MMA in the 2003 elections. This doesn't mean Imran and Shujaat are more liberal than the PPP leaders. It only proves that they are not as cowardly.
History has judged that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was the greatest appeaser that ever existed. If Chamberlain had the PPP leadership negotiating for him, he would have ended up delivering Britain to Hitler gift-wrapped on a silver platter.
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While most of the world is preoccupied with the impact of instability in the Middle East on oil prices and the world economy, a different kind of energy crisis is unfolding practically unnoticed. An ongoing reshuffle in natural gas supplies has left at least two countries - Israel and Jordan - without much of the gas they need.
The military is currently all-volunteer. If there are "too many" white males, the obvious reason is because white males volunteer proportionately more than other races and women.
If we can mandate voter registration at the local Department of Motor Vehicles (making it a whole lot easier for illegals to vote), why not mandate military recruiters at every high school graduation in Compton, Stockton, and Detroit? With recruitment brochures in 26 languages, of course. Why not set up recruitment offices within welfare offices and in unemployment offices?
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Funny how the same folks that spewed nonsense about Black men being put into combat positions (even when such news was Vietnam era data and not true for the modern Army) are shocked to find that Black men may not think the military is their best option.
Funny how folks simply can't imagine the end results of their own policies and propoganda.
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I agree with what Col. West has to say: I'm guessing that this third generation Army veteran of African-American descent will tell you (in colorful language) that the Army needs more warriors of whatever color.
I would think Col. West might also say that much of the PC that pervades our society today is non-sense. He seems to me a no nonsense kind of person. The idea that the military ought to be patterned after universities today would be a mistake.
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