Iowa Radio Host Says Nuns Should Be “Pistol Whipped”

@OmSigDAVID,

You were friends with Nazis?

Also, I hope someone steals all of your guns tonight.

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@OmSigDAVID,

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Incidentally, I accept the word: "bigot" as being a man of strong beliefs
like the Viking who refused to kneel and kiss the foot of the King of England,
saying something like: not ME, by God! (bi Gott).

This is bullshit. It has been pointed out to you time and again that it's bullshit. I have posted reliable etymologies of the word before. You still attempt to peddle this bullshit. That says a lot about you.

Something else which says a lot about you is your admiration of a "Viking." Viking is not a nationality, it's an activity, and that activity is piracy. Vikings were murderous scum who preyed upon people by sea and by land. I'm not surprised that you admire such people. Had they possessed firearms while they carried out their scurrilous depredations, i suspecct that you'd be absolutely delirious.

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@Setanta,

DAVID wrote:

Incidentally, I accept the word: "bigot" as being a man of strong beliefs
like the Viking who refused to kneel and kiss the foot of the King of England,
saying something like: not ME, by God! (bi Gott).

Setanta wrote:

This is bullshit. It has been pointed out to you time and again that it's bullshit.
I have posted reliable etymologies of the word before.
You still attempt to peddle this bullshit. That says a lot about you.

Maybe that says something about how much I respect u and believe what u say.

Setanta wrote:

Something else which says a lot about you is your admiration of a "Viking."
Viking is not a nationality, it's an activity, and that activity is piracy.

THERE's a nice example of my not believing u, Setanta.
Maybe u think that the Somalians r VIKINGS, huh ?? (see definition 2. hereinbelow)

Vi·king /ˈvaɪkɪŋ/ Show Spelled[vahy-king] Show IPA
noun ( sometimes lowercase )
1. any of the Scandinavian pirates
who plundered the coasts of Europe from the 8th to 10th centuries.
2. a sea-roving bandit; pirate.
3. a Scandinavian.
4. U.S. Aerospace one of a series of space probes
that obtained scientific information about Mars.

Setanta wrote:

Vikings were murderous scum who preyed upon people by sea and by land.

I can 't deny THAT!

Setanta wrote:

I'm not surprised that you admire such people.

Well, I admire THAT Viking 's bravery, anyway.
It can be risky to stand up for what u believe in.

Setanta wrote:

Had they possessed firearms while they carried out their scurrilous depredations,
i suspecct that you'd be absolutely delirious.

Your suspicions r unfounded n devoid of merit.
I do not approve of robbery.
Accordingly, I disapprove of and reject socialism and liberalism.

David

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Note that the definition you supplied states that they were pirates. All Vikings were pirates, but i did not state or imply that all pirates are Vikings. This is part and parcel of the kind idiocy you peddle around here. I don't care if i have your respect, and would in fact be dismayed to think i had. I see no reason to consider Vikings to have been particularly courageous, and good reason to think otherwise. They never did well against people willing to stand up to them, an usually ran away from anyone who carried the fight to them. As i said, your admiration of scum like them says a lot about you.

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

To be rude to your host
is an awkward way to embarrass yourself.

Disagreeing with someone is rude? I must ask why are you always rude then David? It is very possible to disagree without being rude. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean it can't be done.

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parados wrote:
Not being rude to your bigoted host is a way to make sure that he thinks you agree with him.
So ACCORDING to U, the radio host now believes that
the Congressman is going out to hunt down some nuns and beat them with a pistol????????

Rather a large leap their David. Did the host state that Congressman was going to do that and then the Congressman agreed with that statement by not denying it?

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I don't think so.

You don't think at all it seems.

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All of my life, from and during childhood,
I have been an outspoken anti-authoritarian,
so in the spirit of personal freedom, I denounced the nazis, the commies and the liberals,
but I 've had warm friends in each of those ideological groups, including girlfriends,
whom I have had living with me. I have ALWAYS flown my own freedom-loving colors.
Doing so never required me to be impolite (candor moves me to admit, tho
that I HAVE done it occasionally, e.g. when I felt like it).

I see, so you agreed with commies rather than be rude to them? Interesting David. Are you only so cranky now in your dotage?

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FOR SURE, as a member of Congress,
crazy and stupid people speak to him all the time.
He has to get used to it, but he does not need to get into a fight
everytime it happens; he'd never get any peace.

Who said he needed to get into a fight? Are you saying the host would start a fight with anyone that disagreed with him? As a Congressman he should be capable of disagreeing politely with others and correcting their mistaken and irrational statements. McCain did it to the woman that claimed Obama was Muslim. It's called being a leader David. Something the Tea Party doesn't seem to understand. They only know about being a mob, it seems.

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Incidentally, I accept the word: "bigot" as being a man of strong beliefs
like the Viking who refused to kneel and kiss the foot of the King of England,
saying something like: not ME, by God! (bi Gott).

The "bigots" have as much right to THEIR opinions, as u do to yours.
People r NOT required to conform their opinions to what liberals LIKE

They don't have a right to be agreed with. This is still the USA the last time I looked.

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parados wrote:
I prefer to not be embarrassed by agreeing with such a person.
but from your post,
I infer that it exceeds your ability to express dissent politely

Says the man that can't figure out what I actually said but prefers to infer something that isn't there. There are 2 parts to disagreeing politely David. The first part is listening and responding to what the person actually said. Since you seem incapable of even the most basic comprehension perhaps it is best you do keep silent.

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

Note that the definition you supplied states that they were pirates.

OF COURSE, thay were pirates!
Thay were known for that more than anything else.

Setanta wrote:

All Vikings were pirates, but i did not state or imply that all pirates are Vikings.

Your exact words were:

Setanta wrote:

Viking is not a nationality, it's an activity, and that activity is piracy.
[yet another in your endless series of run-on sentences]

Ergo, Mr. Setanta woud have us believe that
the Somalians are VIKINGS.

Setanta wrote:

This is part and parcel of the kind idiocy you peddle around here.
I don't care if i have your respect, and would in fact be dismayed to think i had.

I 'm almost tempted to apologize for that remark qua respect,
in recognition of the fact that u have not been as perversely abhorrent
in your manners of late, as we have known u to be.
In retrospect, I hope that I did not hurt your feelings about that.

Setanta wrote:

I see no reason to consider Vikings to have been particularly courageous, and good reason to think otherwise.
They never did well against people willing to stand up to them, an usually ran away from anyone who carried the fight to them.
As i said, your admiration of scum like them says a lot about you.

My admiration was directed toward the brave "bi Gott". He was the intrepid anti-foot smoocher.
U have chosen to distort my post into a generalization embracing all Vikings.
( I 'm not sure whether u allege that I admire the Somalians, in your theories. )

David

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

Viking is not a nationality, it's an activity, and that activity is piracy.

However, for some of us that enjoy history that is written for popular consumption, have read that Vikings are those Norse guys that spread their blond hair, light eyes, and drunken behavior to other parts of Europe. I say this because many people are today still feeling the effects of the Viking raids, back in the day, based on all the people that think that certain demographics are Nordic, when in actuality the demographic just got a good dose of Viking semen back in the day.

The second "blonding of Europe" occurred, I thought, in the 1600's when Sweden was militaristic?

Anyway, if one looks upon the Vikings based on the remnants of their traits that are still in "other" populations, the piracy is sort of inconsequential, other than buried treasure, perhaps.

And, this post is just utilizing your point, but really written for other readers, so any agreement, or disagreement, is just wasting one's breath.

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@parados,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

To be rude to your host
is an awkward way to embarrass yourself.

parados wrote:

Disagreeing with someone is rude?
I must ask why are you always rude then David?
It is very possible to disagree without being rude.
Just because you can't do it doesn't mean it can't be done.

U seem not to have read the thread, or forgotten it.
The author of this thread said (inter alia):

raprap wrote:

As for congressmen Latham why don't you do the people of Iowa a favor and grow a pair
and tell this guy to take his unfunny joke and 'stick it'? Rap

THAT was the subject-matter of my discussion.

David

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@Foofie,

according to what i read all of you are wrong on who and what the Vikings were.

Top 10 Misconceptions About The Vikings

Personally I don't see what it has to do with anything at all.

As for the subject and the republican agreeing with it out of politeness, yeah, right. Really weak.

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@revelette,

I see nothing at your link which contradicts what i've written, but ou think what you like.

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@Setanta,

You said vikings meant pirate, it don't.

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The word Viking does not refer to any location, but is the Old Norse word for a person participating in an expedition to sea.

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From reference-dot-com:

1. any of the Scandinavian pirates who plundered the coasts of Europe from the 8th to 10th centuries.
2. a sea-roving bandit; pirate.
3. a Scandinavian.

From the free dictionary-dot-com (Citing the Collins English Dictionary)

1. (Social Science / Peoples) (Historical Terms) Also called Norseman Northman any of the Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes who raided by sea most of N and W Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries, later often settling, as in parts of Britain
2. any sea rover, plunderer, or pirate
3. (Astronautics) either of two unmanned American spacecraft that reached Mars in 1976
4. (Social Science / Peoples) (Historical Terms) (modifier) of, relating to, or characteristic of a Viking or Vikings a Viking ship

From Merriam-Wester

1 a : one of the pirate Norsemen plundering the coasts of Europe in the 8th to 10th centuries

It may come as a surprise to you, but your source is neither the exclusive source, nor the comprehensive one.

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@Setanta,

It don't come as a surprise to me, it was just a link I randomly found through Google.

However, that is not what you said. You said "your link don't contradict anything I said." In one instance it did confirm what you said, when it said that viking don't mean a location but it didn't say it meant pirate, just one who goes on an expedition to the sea.

Your right in that the source is not a very good source for a refrence since it don't list any refrence sources. Would be interested in knowing where they came by their information.

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@OmSigDAVID,

Of course, we'll just ignore everything else that went on in the discussion. Rolling Eyes

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@revelette,

Well, i'm not lousy, so it must be you . . . because you're picking nits to beat the ban. But if it makes you happy to think that'i'm wrong and you're right, knock yourself out. It's rather ironic that you admit it's not a good source, but still want to harp on whether or not it contradicts me. Just what exactly do you think was the purpose of those expeditions "to the sea?"

You need to work on your English compositon, it's poor.

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From The Online Etymology Dictionary

Scandinavian pirate, 1807, vikingr; modern spelling attested from 1840. The word is a historical revival; it was not used in M.E., but it was revived from O.N. vikingr "freebooter, sea-rover, pirate, viking," which usually is explained as meaning properly "one who came from the fjords," from vik "creek, inlet, small bay" (cf. O.E. wic, M.H.G. wich "bay," and second element in Reykjavik). But O.E. wicing and O.Fris. wizing are almost 300 years older, and probably derive from wic "village, camp" (temporary camps were a feature of the Viking raids), related to L. vicus "village, habitation" (see villa). The connection between the Norse and Old English words is still much debated. The period of Viking activity was roughly 8c. to 11c. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the raiding armies generally were referred to as þa Deniscan "the Danes," while those who settled in England were identified by their place of settlement.

From the Wikipedia article

The Old Norse feminine noun víking refers to an expedition overseas. It occurs in Viking Age runic inscriptions and in later medieval writings in set expressions such as the phrasal verb fara í víking "to go on an expedition". In later texts such as the Icelandic sagas, the phrase "to go viking" implies participation in raiding activity or piracy, and not simply seaborne missions of trade and commerce. The related Old Norse masculine noun víkingr appears in Viking Age skaldic poetry and on several rune stones found in Scandinavia, where it refers to a seaman or warrior who takes part in an expedition overseas.[4] The form also occurs as a personal name on some Swedish rune stones. There is little indication of any negative connotation in the term before the end of the Viking Age. Regardless of its possible origins, the word was used to indicate an activity and those who participated in it, and not to any ethnic or cultural group.

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@Setanta,

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You need to work on your English compositon, it's poor.

Yeah, I know, I kinda know better than to say "it don't ..." But sometimes, I just don't care too much to put a lot of effort. Also, been a while since I was in school and forgot most of what I did manage to grasp.

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because you're picking nits to beat the ban.

I was making mountains out of mole hills. Maybe I have a secret thing for Vikings, I do read a lot of romance novels...now I see they really were not muscle bound blonde giants...

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Just what exactly do you think was the purpose of those expeditions "to the sea?"

Anyway, according to my admittedly poor sourced article, sometimes they pillaged and raped but sometimes they traded peacefully. It sounds like it might be true.

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@Setanta,

So I gather that in earlier times it just bascially meant an expedition to the sea but later (after perhaps their actions) became known as those who went raiding overseas but the term never refered to an ethnic group or cultural group.

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According to monastic cources, they would trade, but if they saw a weakness, they'd be back at dawn to rape and pillage. Any way you look at it, they were not admirable people, which was my point in the first place, when responding to Dave's bullshit.

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

From reference-dot-com:

1. any of the Scandinavian pirates who plundered the coasts of Europe from the 8th to 10th centuries.
2. a sea-roving bandit; pirate.
3. a Scandinavian.

From the free dictionary-dot-com (Citing the Collins English Dictionary)

1. (Social Science / Peoples) (Historical Terms) Also called Norseman Northman any of the Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes who raided by sea most of N and W Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries, later often settling, as in parts of Britain
2. any sea rover, plunderer, or pirate
3. (Astronautics) either of two unmanned American spacecraft that reached Mars in 1976
4. (Social Science / Peoples) (Historical Terms) (modifier) of, relating to, or characteristic of a Viking or Vikings a Viking ship

From Merriam-Wester

1 a : one of the pirate Norsemen plundering the coasts of Europe in the 8th to 10th centuries

It may come as a surprise to you, but your source is neither the exclusive source, nor the comprehensive one.

These definitions r essentially the same as the ones that I posted.

David

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