Can you believe what this idiot GOP Sen. said?

Who's calling names now?
Is that the best you can say? It doesn't answer any questions. It doesn't defend any answers. Your statement is meaningless. It only shows your ignorance. Oh well

Life and Deatherage
It's a big world out there, and I'm part of it

Senator James Inhofe is a dangerous idiot
Lots of emotional words were spilled on and immediately after September 11, 2001. Who could forget Ann Coulter, mourning her friend and equally-rabid Clinton-hater Barbara Olson in a column, when she said, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." (Note that it wasn't enough to defeat them -- they had to adopt our beliefs by force, too.) Or Jerry Falwell blaming it on the gays and the ACLU, apologizing to reduce the heat but bragging about it in later fund-raising to arch-conservatives?

OK, try this quote on for size:

http://friends.macjournals.com/mattd/stories/storyReader$236


"One of the reason I believe the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States of America is that the policy of our government has been to ask the Israelis, and demand it with pressure, not to retaliate in a significant way against the terrorist strikes that have been launched against them."

Make sure you got that: the speaker says God allowed terrorists to attack the US on September 11, when previously He would not have, because He is upset about the US's Israel policy.

The speaker? US Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla), a homegrown idiot. Like Coulter and Falwell, he hasn't disavowed his remarks in any serious way. Unlike the other right-wingers, he delivered these comments in March 2002, six months after the attacks.

Inhofe is the kind of person who doesn't belong in elected office because he's both ignorant and dangerous. As David Corn's article chronicles, Inhofe has taken the Senate floor and demanded that because his literal reading of the Bible (specifically, Genesis 13.14-17) says that God gave the West Bank to Abraham and his descendants, the US is violating God's law with any policy other than elimination of Palestinians from any territory Abraham could have seen from Hebron 4,000 years ago.

Corn writes, "In Inhofe's mind, these few sentences in the Bible decide the matter, end of story. This is fundamentalism. And not too far a throw from the Islamic fundamentalism used by terrorists who point to the Koran to justify their actions." Other than assuming Inhofe has a mind, he's right. Inhofe and his ilk have absolutely no tolerance for any individual who believes anything other than what they believe about the Bible. Alternate interpretations, even alternate translations, are the work of the Devil, and anyone who uses them must be resisted if not imprisoned.

Make no mistake: every regime that tortures does so in the name of salvation, some superior goal, some promise of paradise. Call it communism, call it the free market, call it the free world, call it the national interest, call it fascism, call it the leader, call it civilisation, call it the service of God, call it the need for information; call it what you will, the cost of paradise, the promise of some sort of paradise, Ivan Karamazov continues to whisper to us, will always be hell for at least one person somewhere, sometime.

An uncomfortable truth: the American and British soldiers in Iraq, like torturers everywhere, do not think of themselves as evil, but rather as guardians of the common good, dedicated patriots who get their hands soiled and endure perhaps some sleepless nights in order to deliver the blind ignorant majority from violence and anxiety. Nor are the motives of the demonised enemy significant, not even the fact that they are naked and under the boot because they dared to resist a foreign power occupying their land.

Mr. Blatham says that he sent in a report( gulp) on my use of "towel heads". He thinks it is a racist comment. I am reporting that Mr. Blatham is wrong.

Racist is defined as: "The doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or human achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior>"

Since most Arabic-speaking peoples are of the Mediterrean physical type of the Caucasoid race and since I am of the Caucasoid race, it is not possible for me to be a racist in terms of the definition above.

I hope that Mr. Blatham is aware of the full meaning of the adjective "inherent" as used above. I submit that wearing a towel on one's head is not an "inherent" difference.

Mr. Blatham appears to be quite cavalier with his comments. I must be very very careful or he will push the report button to try to destroy me( Is it because he can't cope?). On another thread the all-knowing Mr. Blatham indicated that my referencing of a Time Magazine Article( I cited Oct. 17th 1969) was wrong and that the Article did not exist.

I wish to inform Mr. Blatham that the article about the Montreal Police Strike does indeed exist in Time Magazine on Oct. 17th. 1969. I do not reference non existent sources.

So I must conclude that either Mr. Blatham does not know how to do basic research, or he has made an egregious mistake.

I hope this will not raise his ire and cause him to report me for exposing his erroneous pomposity.

It was merely a comment. It was not intended to either answer or defend any questions or answers

Mr. Blatham says that he sent in a report( gulp) on my use of "towel heads". He thinks it is a racist comment. I am reporting that Mr. Blatham is wrong.

Racist is defined as: "The doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or human achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior>"

Since most Arabic-speaking peoples are of the Mediterrean physical type of the Caucasoid race and since I am of the Caucasoid race, it is not possible for me to be a racist in terms of the definition above.

So I must conclude that either Mr. Blatham does not know how to do basic research, or he has made an egregious mistake.

I hope this will not raise his ire and cause him to report me for exposing his erroneous pomposity.

Since most Arabic-speaking peoples are of the Mediterrean physical type of the Caucasoid race and since I am of the Caucasoid race, it is not possible for me to be a racist in terms of the definition above.

most Arabic-speaking peoples

How shocking!! I guess that Senator Inhof can be called an idiot, a moron and a whacko but calling Arab murderers, murderers and towel heads is somehow disallowed. I don't understand. People who murder our citizens are to be treated with the utmost verbal courtesy but a US Senator, who expresses his opinion, is an idiot, a moron and a whacko.