On the wings of a snow-white dove

My gosh, a brilliant disciple of Dys!

Oooh, Dys dekes to the right.

and his sarcasm. don't forget that.

oh wait, you didn't catch it...

The fertility of this field is amazing.

The West must rely on "the better educated among us" (like john2054)...

Astounding.

Because you would never have heard about this through any other medium.

Really?

You really want the police to put a stop to free speech?

The pastor is a publicity hound and idiot but his stunt is not at all the equivalent of shouting "Fire!" in a crowded room.

My God, we can burn the American flag, piss on Christ and **** on Mary, harangue the families of fallen soldiers, flood the internet with porn, and claim our president is a muslim sleeper, but we can't burn Korans![/b]

Why the hell not?

Because we're afraid that a bunch of murderous effin bullies will make us pay for it?

God help us, the Islamists are winning.

We are inviting the barbarians at our gates to come in.

Let's see...

"Our troops" are members of the most powerful fighting force in history. They are highly trained warriors. They are in a country where they are, daily, battling Islamists.

And we are to think that this Floridian clown's publicity stunt is going to make their lives more dangerous?

Give me a break.

If this stunt endangers anyone it will be civilians. They are a whole lot easier to kill than fighting forces with automatic weapons.

And so we are supposed to to avoid pissing them off because they might kill us.

Appeasement = Defeat

Oh and that is just the Christian message.

Are you really trying to say that there is no difference between the degree of coercive proseltyzing of Christianity and Islam?

How about a strong Muslim reponse to a lot more heinous acts?

You didn't ... not let them bully you

Except that one is the effort of an media whore in FLA with about 20 parishoners and the other....

No Rocky, you are one of the few quick of wit who might.

I, alas, can't perceive the subtlty.

("Flood prevention" prevents me from immediately taking on you fools)

And so I wait

I guess you missed the part in the middle about satire, eh?

i get the impression when dealing with folks of a conservative bent, that the feel real life is something you don't joke about, i say, how can you not

And I missed this entire page when I made my post. Finn's first post was at the bottom of page 7. It's the post I saw when I hit the "new" button. I didn't see that the same point had already been made by RH and he had responded. No need to re-fry the hash that's already been fried. Apologies to Finn for piling on.

dj -- I tend to be overly serious about things myself. No idea if it's related to being conservative, I think of myself more of a centrist, but I don't find much humor in human suffering. I do appreciate satire. Particularly when it demonstrates hypocrisy. I don't suffer hypocrites well.

well, I was absolutely wrong in an earlier post when I said the Pastor would not go to NYC, apparently he is, at this moment, in NYC however no one seems willing to meet with him. I suppose he will return to florida today/tomorrow empty-handed. So now I wonder, is his 15 minutes of fame over or will he attempt to rekindle some kind of media flame?

Kiss of death. Once they start ignoring people like that, they begin to die.

Well of course the imam in NYC isn't meeting with him. What in the world would he have to gain from such a meeting? He's trying to stay OUT of the news these days. <shakes head>

I expect Jones to do whatever it takes to stay in the spotlight. If the main media outlets refuse to cover him, I predict he'll self-destruct.

yesh, I was thinking about that preacher Phelps? who was the media star with his protests at VA funerals, is supposedly doing a koran and US flag burning today; where's the media?

this just in from Freddy Phelps
GOD HATES THE MEDIA