resin8er-

Okay: I'm busted. Actually, I've been posing as Bob Brozman for weeks now. All the nasty posts...complete with cussing...are mine! The nice, warm-n-cuddly G-rated posts are his.

I'm sooooo ashamed.

But, I'm glad I could clear this up...finally! This has been such a weight upon me. You have no idea!

Ian/ Bob,
Just A Schizophrenic And So Am I

And, resin8tor-

Those last 2 posts from "Brozman" are mine, too! Notice the saracasm in the first and the cuss-words in the second.

The REAL Bob Brozman would never post such nastiness!

So, from now on, you'll always be able to tell the genuine stuff from my counterfeits.

The REAL Brozman is MUCH nicer than I!!!

Bob Brozman

"Cursing"???

Who-the-fuck are you tawking at, punk???

Bob Brozman
(No, really: it's me...not Assholebrax!)

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Originally posted by BluYanqui:
Remember this is a culture where men are men, and women are housekeepers and breeders.

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You mean Texas?

Steinar

And while I'm at it:

I want to urge all of you to donate some money to the "Send Azlbrax To A Retirement Home" fund.

Please make all checks payable to "Ian Bruce-Douglas"...not to me!

It's the least we can do for a fine old musician, like him, who has slipped into Terminal Senility...

...and someone's gotta feed his kitties!

Bob Brozman,
The One & Original

BluYanqui-

I gotta ask you:

Do you have no sense of the absurd???

Ian,
Bob Brozman's Alter-Ego

Actually in secular Saddam-dominated Iraq, women were doctors, lawyers, scientists, professors,
etc.

They could drive, were not forced to wear head coverings & could own property. That was a much better deal than the rest of the region.

Women's rights in Saudi Arabia are pretty bad, but of course we can't "liberate" them, because it would negatively impact the Bush/Carlisle Group portfolio.

You'll notice that as we post, our total post count goes up for all of our posts - yours don't appear to be changing either!

So, if we were to focus more on encouraging this process in a generous & compassionate way, maybe eventually (it's gonna take a while) the Jihadists will come to be perceived as irrelevant as are most religious fundamentalists; meanwhile, we have to muddle thru this difficult time taking the necessary (but no more than that) steps for self-preservation, & that WOULDN'T include AZL's horrific strategy. Being perceived by the majority of Islamists to be intelligent & compassionate seems crucial to me in all this, hence my hope that that Kerry (as the lesser of two evils) gets in.

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Originally posted by MrCrump:
Islam needs to undergo the process of reform that happened to Christianity in Europe many hundreds of years ago,

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Definitely. An interesting point is that Islam is aprox 700 years younger than Christianity, and what were we up to in the 1300s? I believe the current rise of the fundamentalists is not only a fight against 'the West' but also a sign of an ongoing struggle within Islam,- a way to strengthen their internal position and recruit followers by showing themselves as "strong leaders against the evil forces". Sounds familiar?
If not, then read this article in The New York Times, it's about a DVD ("Faith In The White House") that is to be released one of these days. It is made by members of the so-called "Christian Right" and is meant to be an 'answer' to "Fahrenheit 9/11" and support Bush. This is scary stuff......

Steinar

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Speaking only for myself, it was when I finally let go of the religious brainwashing I had been subjected to for the first 16 years of my Life and started to sense the inner-connectedness of EVERYTHING, without some self-serving "religious" leader, claiming to speak for "God" (who seems more like a petulant reflection of Man than anything else!), that I began to sense my infinitesimally insignificant part of the Big Picture.

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Thanks for the NY Times article. Frightening. I may have to order a copy of the DVD to pass on to my friends who don't believe home-grown fundamentalism is truly dangerous.

Times have changed. I wonder what the original George W. would think of the current one.

Then

The Treaty of Tripoli

On 4 November 1796, near the end of George Washington's second term, it was written into law & passed unanimously by the U.S Senate:

"As the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion..."

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/buckner_tripoli.html

The Godless Constitution

The word "God" does not appear within the text of the Constitution of the United States. After spending three-and-a-half months debating and negotiating about what should go into the document that would govern the land, the framers drafted a constitution that is secular.

Now

George W. Bush has circumvented the legal process to appoint, during a Congressional recess, right wing judicial activist William Pryor to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Quotes from Pryor:

“…The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are rooted in a Christian perspective of the nature of government and the nature of man. The challenge of the next millennium will be to preserve the American experiment by restoring its Christian perspective.”

At a public rally on behalf of a judge who was sued for praying and displaying the 10 Commandments in court, Pryor announced, 'God has chosen, through his son Jesus Christ, this time and this place for all Christians...to save our country and save our courts.'"

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=10944

The Texas Republican Party Platform, 2002:
"Our Party pledges to do everything within its power to dispel the myth of separation of church and state."

Tom Delay, House Majority leader, speaking at a luncheon for Congressional staff in July, 2001 called the Faith Based Initiative a way of:

"standing up and rebuking this notion of separation of church and state that has been imposed upon us over the last 40 or 50 years."
http://www.theocracywatch.org/separation_church_state2.htm

Bush describes himself as a "messenger" of God who is doing "the Lord's will."
Bob Woodward, "Plan of Attack".

For more fun facts, & some lovely photographs:

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"And Ian, as far as having a sense of the absurd??....I'm a guitarist aren't I???"

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Aaaaaaaah I seeeeeeee: a fellow member of The Brotherhood Of The Purposely Absurd!!!

Quick: gimme the secret handshake...

...and the check for your dues.

Ian,
Secretary-Treasurer

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"OK, OK, anybody who wants to be me has to then pay all my bills............and handle my workload"

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Oh gaaaawd! Not the dreaded Road again! Not touring ad infinitum!!!

Never again!!!

Noooooooooooo!!!

Okay, Bob: you win! I'll be good.

Ian,
Once, Bob's Evil Twin

My comments were not made in reference to the ISLAMIC people of the region, the true Muslim, but rather the JIHADIST, to use Ian's chosen term, in reference to a group of creatures dwelling in the region who are using the Islamic faith as a thin veneer to justify criminal conduct. Since these men are nothing but murderous bullies with few redeeming qualities, I think the term "primitive" might also qualify. Of course that was your choice of words, not mine.

As far as the matter with the Chinese aiding in talks with the N. Koreans, that would seem the most logical step to both dealing with the nuclear problem in Korea, and improving relations with the Chinese and the world community, since we wouldn't be guilty of the charge of "going it alone" again by the "world community". And to jump to the conclusion that it would be a "use 'em and lose 'em" plot by this country is baseless since I've yet to meet a really good prognosticator on this forum or in this world, so to suggest anything other then a legitimate goal of diplomatic strategy is jumping to conclusions.

This legislation is called HR 163 and can be examined in detail at this website:
http://thomas.loc.gov/. Just type "HR 163" where it says "Bill Number" and click the Search button to view the bill.

If you are opposed to the draft, you can write your congressman and let him know how you feel about this legislation:

www.house.gov
www.senate.gov

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Originally posted by PiedmontBlues:
You can also contact your representatives and inquire as to why they are not informing their constituents about this bill, or write to newspapers and other media outlets to ask them why they are not covering this important story.

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If there is a liberal media they have been liberally kissing this administration's ass for the last 4 years.
Remember those Pentagon briefings w/ Rumsfeld ?
They sat there terrified and ineffective.

Now Rummy can't tell the diff between Osama and Saddam.
He used "Saddam" in place of "Osama" about 4 or 5 times in a recent speech.

BTW, what do you mean we've got enough troops ? That's what Rummy and Cheney said and they were actually short by about 100,000 in Iraq.

The Media is only as Liberal as the Multinational Corporations that own it.

General Electric, one of the countries' largest military contractors, owns CBS. The only thing Left Wing about them is the wing they build on weapons.

Viacom owns NBC. The head of Viacom is Sumner Redstone, a known Bushite.

Disney, the company that funded & then refused to distribute “Fahrenheit 911”, owns ABC.

They are also one of the largest landowners & employers in Florida, a state run by the Bushes.

If Fox News were any more Right Wing, the entire country would tip over.

I don't remember so-called "liberal" CNN, owned by that massive Multinational Corporation AOL-Time Warner, doing any real investigative journalism questioning the rush to war.

Radio? Please. The dominant player, Clear Channel, is very conservative, to the point that they censor political content of what is played, and if you speak your mind, you get "Dixie Chicked".

I won't even get started on talk radio.

The myth of the Liberal media is a based on a model that is decades old. Journalism used to be a working-class profession, & thus journalists tended to have working class, democratic values. This is not true anymore. The majority of news producers & editors are quite conservative & the flow of information is bought & paid for.