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I'm no theologian, but I think that there is an ample amount of evidence to show that allah is NOT the same entity as the God of Abraham.
Posted by: Nighthawk
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Oh, well, I am a theologian, or at least I play one on the interwebz.

Get two believers together, you'll have at least three ideas about God. (Joke borrowed freely from Judaism.)

That there is one God over all doesn't mean anyone has a monopoly or an exclusive. There certainly aren't dueling gods, Jehovah vs Allah, like Zeus vs Odin in some Jack Kirby comic.

You could safely say that what Muhammad taught about God and what Judeo-Christianity taught about God don't have much overlap except monotheism.

We in the Quasi-Organized Militia of Peruvia don't have to do a thing to defend our borders.

Last year, the Hooded Trayvonians, hopped up on their national drank, Purple Perp, declared war upon Peruvia.

Our weapons all jumped up and slaughtered them.

While singing the national anthem.

There once was a man from Peruvia.
Who suffered from too much effluvia.
It ran up the walls
And oozed down the halls
"It's art!" he said. "This is my ouvria!"

Oooookay. I've got to go tuck the cats into bed. G'night.

"The cop thought I was an idiot"

A trained professional's opinion.

People like Michael Shulan give gays a bad name.

Liberace teaches piano to the Hulk, 1980
http://youtu.be/FeIobL1oumc

for those who don't know goatse, do NOT google it

That's the word! I'd been trying to remember it recently, for some reason, and couldn't figure out how to look it up. Not with Trudy at the NSA looking over my shoulder, anyway.

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1829

Yeah we pretty much burned Shulman and his simplistic 'rah-rah' to the ground in BenK's thread this morning.
—Anna Puma
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I'll just link my message re the BenK link this a.m.
http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=342039#c20967783

That was lazy easy.

Good morn, all. running late today, just catching up.

Two quotes from the 9/11 museum article.

"My concern, as it always was, is that we not reduce [9/11] down to something that was too simple, and in its simplicity would actually distort the complexity of the event, the meaning of the event," he said.

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Three feet tall and 15 tons, the composite contains about four or five building stories compressed by pressure and heat into one solid block, with bits of paper and the edges of filing cabinets poking out of the surface.

The museum tested the outside of the composite and found it negative for DNA. But they couldn't test inside it without the risk of destroying it. Eventually, despite the uncertainty and over the objections of some 9/11 family members, the piece was included.
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complexity & meaning of the event - horrifying mass murder

...one of our morons did the lens for the camera
Posted by: navycopjoe
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Sure, that's the one with the thumbprint on it, right?

Re 12 rules of the net, has this one been pointed out?

6) If your website's full of assholes morons, it's your fault.

Apropos of absolutely nothing around here.

I'm not in the top 10s again. How something.

I barely have time to glimpse a few comments lately before something runs over me. takes me away. I blame the posts that have all that content, taking away so much of my comment-reading time. All those words! And if you click the links, often there's more words!
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The planets from Mars was great. I'm so glad I've lived to see robots taking vids while they explore Mars. Now if we could just put a man...

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in the White House.

Followed by committing whatever resources and assets it took to hunt down each and every leader of AQ, in whatever country they were in.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 28, 2013 11:14 AM
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Upon reflection, I thought my tacked-on little question was inappropriately O/T, but I appreciate your thoughts, COJ. Pretty much always.

The other from the morning comments.

Ragtag bunch with ak-47s could not oppose the US military. That whole the line of debate. My thought was, not in direct confrontation, no. And a bunch of Polish dock workers couldn't bring down the Soviet Union. But there are... subterfuges, sabotage, and secret armies within armies, and a social and political war as well. (Has we turned Trudy at the NSA yet?)

Just noodling academically. Of course.

3. What would you have done differently from what Bush did after 9 11 2001? How would you have had America respond? in hindsight?

These things are related.

Two interesting threads in the morning post.

One was the fellow who shot the 14 year old in his front yard there was good debate on that. One person said you can't shoot somebody in your yard, initiate fight. Right. The other person argued you can go out in your yard you know, and with your gun. (I paraphrase badly no doubt.) And the kid allegedly did look like he was going for something. Probably could have been much better handled. Freeze kid! But an interesting case.

The greatest twentieth-century influences contributing to the furtherance of civilization and the advancement of culture are the marked increase in world travel and the unparalleled improvements in methods of communication. But the improvement in education has not kept pace with the expanding social structure; neither has the modern appreciation of ethics developed in correspondence with growth along more purely intellectual and scientific lines. And modern civilization is at a standstill in spiritual development and the safeguarding of the home institution. (ca1935)

Thank you muchos, cthulhu, for the Clapton-Cale clip!

Cars going wild. Planes going wild. Trains going wild. Buses going wild.

Say, this seems obvious, but did anybody here connect
the more recent story about cracking and causing a digital automobile to go out of (the driver's) control,
with
that reporter who died in a crazy speeding (digital) automobile because he was tragically drugged drunk and so it couldn't possibly have been conspirators doing something fantastic like causing a digital automobile to go out of control only crazy tinfoil mad hatters could think such a thing?
Did they?

Speaking of xplody things, I ran across a little item today that I'm sure every moron weapons collector will want to acquire for the ahem bottom of the lake arsenal.

http://youtu.be/UTdy1Yp1h5A

Am I here early or is it late? Or vice versa? Greetin's cretins, up's what tonight, burn, salt, patch, or powder?

woot. Under 100 (by 1). Now to read below the flod.

Oh look, some scrunt wants to take away summer vacation from kids.
http://tinyurl.com/m4rn92h
Posted by: Lauren
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Our kids never got Summer vacations, poor things. 24/7 education at their boarding school.