Dulcie (Dulcinea) and Finbar are my two cats. ;-)
Posted on 12/03/2006 4:50:45 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
WASHINGTON (Dec. 1) -- When radio host Jerry Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band, the phone lines jammed instantly.
The first caller to the station in Washington said that Klein must be "off his rocker." The second congratulated him and added: "Not only do you tattoo them in the middle of their forehead but you ship them out of this country ... they are here to kill us."
Another said that tattoos, armbands and other identifying markers such as crescent marks on driver's licenses, passports and birth certificates did not go far enough. "What good is identifying them?" he asked. "You have to set up encampments like during World War Two with the Japanese and Germans."
At the end of the one-hour show, rich with arguments on why visual identification of "the threat in our midst" would alleviate the public's fears, Klein revealed that he had staged a hoax. It drew out reactions that are not uncommon in post-9/11 America.
"I can't believe any of you are sick enough to have agreed for one second with anything I said," he told his audience on the AM station 630 WMAL (http://www.wmal.com/), which covers Washington, Northern Virginia and Maryland
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There were camps for Germans in WWI.
Who's Dulcie/Finbar? :-)
Enjoy the winter.
Why?
Dulcie (Dulcinea) and Finbar are my two cats. ;-)
In that case, they've got my vote!
Because money is a commodity that is openly traded around the world and through a variety of financial instruments, schemes and gimmicks -- some of them very, very exotic. So, how much a dollar is worth on the international market will be reflected on the price tag for that can of chicken and rice soup on the supermarket shelf.
KLEIN = LITTLE in German...Nuf Said
That is certainly the reality, but have you asked why?
Chicken and rice soup, along with many/most goods are still domesticaly produced. Many are/more could be.
Does this central banking make Americans richer or poorer?
Let's focus on the central question of the battle between Hamilton and Jefferson.
The world has changed, for sure, but in the eternal battle since Christ with the money changers in the temple has not.
Mr. Reuters doesn't get out too much, if this is the first he's heard of it...
I have to get to work. Already late. So, I'm not running out.
Chicken and Rice soup (one of my personal favorites) is domestically produced, but the energy that moves the raw materials to the plant and the finished goods to the supermarket aren't domestically produced.
Why would Americans have an anti-muslim sentiment? I can't imagine.
There had BETTER BE "anti-Muslim sentiments" in the United States, or else we are going to lose this war and end up with a future identical to Europe's.
Before I get flamed or get this posting pulled, what, exactly, are Islam's "sentiments" towards non-believers?
Were there "anti-German" sentiments in the U.S. in 1941?
Were there "anti-Japanese" sentiments in the U.S. in 1941?
Were such sentiments good, or were they bad?
How would we have won without them?
- John
I pray you are wrong; since, I live outside of Chicago.
They are a religion of Piece, just ask the Europeons.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Given that over 90% of the mosques in America are Saudi-funded and Wahabbi in philosophy, methinks you are being a tad naive.
I'm not a bit Islamophobic.
But I am bombophobic.
They're the ones that made it the same thing, NOT ME!!
Jordan, Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon. And on and on.
Nov. 9,2005 Amman, Jordan: Suicide bombers hit 3 American hotels, Radisson, Grand Hyatt, and Days Inn, in Amman, Jordan, killing 57.
January 21, 2003: The killing of one American and wounding of another in an attack near Camp Doha, the main U.S. army base in Kuwait, was the third such incident since October.
March 22, 2005: Qatar: The first suicide car bombing in this Persian Gulf state killed two, including a British man, wounded 15 others...Western embassies have said that the threat from terrorism here is high.
April, 2003: The U.S. State Department has authorized the departure of non-emergency personnel and their families because of credible threats of attacks on U.S. and Western interests in Bahrain, while the head of the U.S. Central Command, citing similar threats, ordered 650 U.S. military dependents to leave.
And on and on...
It doesn't matter how many "peaceful" people exist within a given culture if they're unwilling or unable to stand up to those within their group who choose to embark on violence. As a practical matter, they may as well not exist at all.
You think I don't know about these things? For crying out loud, I live with it every day. What are you doing to try to help out? And complaining about things does not count.
READ the question I was answering before you climb up onto your bully pulpit. And stop taking my remarks out of context. And don't address me as if I'm some dimbulb who doesn't know what the hell is going on.
Those are my new rules for anyone who wants to engage in discourse. And I'm sticking to them.
Aw. I guess YOUR panties are in a wad.
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