Mark the day. For once I am in 100% agreement with this article and the comments posted so far. Our elected representatives have failed us in a disgraceful fashion. Shame on credit card companies and other predatory lenders who not only charge exorbitantly high interest rates ostensibly to cover the cost of deadbeats, but then turn around and try to get yet another pound of flesh from people who in many case have had some catastrophic event befall them. I'm disgusted by all the actors in this obscene show of rapaciousness and amorality.
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crashtech
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I see I'm late to the party, but I would like to actually like to offer a criticism of the article. Instead of the tired old comparisons to Hitler, Zizek instead turns to Heinrich Himmler. It's not hard to demonstrate that this sort of moral equivalence doesn't work on anyone with half a brain. I don't believe it can be proven that Jews were blowing up Nazi buildings, or marching en masse in the streets chanting 'Death to Germany'. There is, however, ample evidence of the murderous intentions of large sections of Islamic society. I believe there is justification for the …
Posted to Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
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So the comparison of American counter terrorism activities and the Nazi's pogrom against the Jews is an apt one? I'd love to hear a more in depth defense of this 'interesting' point of view. As far as stuff being 'in my own head', I suppose you will agree that all the video of anti-American and now anti-European demonstrations is fabricated, and that fatwas calling for the death of Westerners do not really exist either. Bah. I don't know why I bother. Folks who can't accept obvious facts like 9/11 being caused by Islamic fanactics, or that a large percentage of Muslims …
Posted to Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
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I don't excuse torture. I reluctantly advocate it against an enemy that shows no sign of playing by the rules. It doesn't need to be complicated. When one side takes the gloves off, the other side must oblige if it is not suicidal. I suppose flying jets into skyscrapers doesn't classify as 'real terrorism'. Or perhaps you really believe that utterly ridiculous notion that 9/11 was orchestrated by 'Bushitler'. I don't know about the courage of Europeans. I do know that if immigration to Europe were halted, its population would be in decline. This speaks of a profound pessimism and lack …
Posted to Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
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Principled debate? If any of my comments could be construed as insulting, as least I was talking about ideas, and not personally attacking anyone. If this is how you intend to 'clue' me in, I find you an inadequte and boorish instructor, with perhaps the same single mindedness that you so easily impute to me.
Posted to Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
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I'm sorry you will not see the logic in acknowledging that killing is the coin of radical Islam's realm. Multiple mentions of the slaughter and subjugation of unbelievers in the Koran are taken to heart by a great number of Islamic fundamentalists. Christianity got over this phase in the 16th century. I actually would be open to other solutions, yet time and again, the less 'cold blooded' solutions have resulted in failure and the emboldenment of these enemies of freedom, who if left unchecked, would see to it that our very dialogue would not be allowed. I am not unaware of …
Posted to Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
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I have avoided the use of labels like 'fascist' since I do not want to evoke trite comparisons to Nazism, as Slavoj Zizek did in his article. If you want to argue that 'radical Islamists' as a descriptive term has no valid meaning in the real world, please put away your antique psychoanalytical babble and do so. The problem I have with any continuation of this dialogue is that you are content merely to pick apart my verbage, beliefs, and purported mental state, while providing little in the way of your own actual opinion on the real subject at hand. …
Posted to Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
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LOL. If not forthrightly, as least I'm addressing the article, which so far you seem incapable of doing. Perhaps the fact that you find my posts an interesting subject for analysis could be interpreted as a weak form of flattery, but more likely your attempts to belittle me will merely make you look small to others who might read these posts. Goodbye for now, luminous beauty. Too bad the only thing you have convinced me of is that beauty really is only skin deep.
Posted to Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
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The connection the article tries to make is that these groups somehow want to brainwash people into mindless obedience. What I see is that nearly two generations have gone by where the popular thinking has been that it is wrong to make moral judgements. The result of this is that kids grow up without much of a moral foundation to guide their actions, and groups like this have rushed in to fill the vacuum. Typical of articles on this site, no alternative is offered, just a gloomy assessment of how things are going terribly awry. Could this be because the alternatives …
Posted to Cult of Character
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Technically, censorship means the ideas in question have been removed from the public arena. The statements of Natalie Mains are pretty well known and she is still free to speak her mind to all who care to listen. The problem is, nobody gives a damn what she thinks about politics. She's a musican, not an analyst! I appreciate her musical skill, but for her to use her fame to promote an agenda totally unrelated to her field of expertise is unseemly at best. Nobody should have to listen to Natalie Main's polical diatribes if they don't want to. Freedom of speech …
Posted to Country's Jingoistic Jingles
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Some of you guys really make me smile. Hey, if you don't want to wait for bird flu, just hurry up and kill yourselves, OK? http://www.vhemt.org/ Anyway, no mere virus has a very good chance of wiping out humanity, but it could take out a pretty good chunk of the weak and less hygenic. Is that what you really had in mind?
Posted to How concerned are you about a possible bird flu pandemic?
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I came here looking for some criticism of John Roberts, and as usual, In These Times does not disappoint. I'd like to take exception to a few things mentioned this article, though. First of all, trying to smear De Lay by referring to his former working-class profession is a non sequitur. If he was once a prole, doesn't that earn him points? I'm sure there are far better ways to insult the guy, as even many on the right are none too fond of "The Hammer". Second, using aguments made by a lawyer working for a client to infer said lawyer's …
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