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#JobsForISIS — Say, what? [Darleen Click]

This is your brain on Obama —

Harf: Well, I think there’s a few stages here. Right now what we’re is trying to take their leaders and their fighters off the battlefield in Iraq and in Syria; that’s really where they flourish.

Matthews: Are we killing enough of them?

Harf: We’re killing a lot of them and we’re going to keep killing more of them. So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians. They’re in this fight with us. But we cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war.

‘So how do we defeat ISIS’ you might be wondering? Don’t worry, the State Department is like, totally on top of this:

Harf: We need, in the medium and longer term, to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups.

Harf: Whether it’s lack of opportunity for jobs…

Matthews: We’re not going to be able to stop that in our lifetime or fifty lifetimes. There’s always going to be poor people, there’s always going to be poor Muslims. As long as there are poor Muslims and the trumpet’s blowing, they’ll join. We can’t stop that, can we?

Harf: We can work with countries around the world to help improve their governance. We can help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people. You’re right. There is no easy solution in the longterm to preventing and combating violent extremism. But if we can help countries work at the root causes of this. What makes these 17 year old kids pick up an AK-47 instead of trying to start a business, maybe we can try to chip away at this problem, while at the same time, going after the threat, taking on ISIL in Iraq, in Syria and helping our partners around the world.

Unfuckingbelievable. I don’t have enough palms to face.

h/t Legal Insurrection

86 Replies to “#JobsForISIS — Say, what? [Darleen Click]”

  1. palaeomerus says:

    What’s next? Sending the AG to the Atlantic to investigate Neptune? Making a horse the secretary of HUD? Point over the sneeze guard at the roast beef in an Arby’s ?

  2. sdferr says:

    On the contrary, this is anything but unfuckingbelieveable. It’s nearly a perfect map of the moral depravity of the entire ClownDisaster clique.

  3. Shermlaw says:

    What sdferr said.

    In spades.

  4. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Everything’s a jobs program to Democrats, isn’t it?

    They have jobs. Their job is killing Kuffar like you and me. Killing their way out of this war is precisely what they intend to do.

    I guess the way to sell Democrats on fighting this war is to frame it as a population control initiative joined to an urban renewal program.

  5. Squid says:

    Just explain that they’re on the payroll of Big Oil. Maybe mention their carbon footprint while you’re at it. They’ll be launching missiles within an hour.

  6. eCurmudgeon says:

    A better country than our own would offer a job to ISIS – As fertilizer.

    Or, perhaps, as a grisly warning to others…

  7. sdferr says:

    A better country than our own would offer a job to ISIS – As fertilizer.

    Or, perhaps, as a grisly warning to others…

    This country already did that in 2007-8. Then all that work was thrown away by the ClownDisaster in revenge upon his enemies, his “own” nation. So, here we are today.

  8. bgbear says:

    There are lots of poor people in the world, might be something else going on here lady.

  9. McGehee says:

    Give all the jihadis minimum wage jobs, then when the Democrats want to raise the minimum wage anyone against it will be beheaded.

  10. eCurmudgeon says:

    This country already did that in 2007-8.

    Not well enough – and much like what happens when a course of antibiotics isn’t completed, you wind up with resistant survivors.

    At this point, we may have to simply evacuate the Israelis and cauterize the entire region. Three Conjectures anyone?

  11. geoffb says:

    “Victory is just a big Stimulus bill away.”

    “The ball’s in your court Congress, I’ll be on the links.”

  12. geoffb says:

    On the other hand ISIS is advertising world-wide that they have the biggest baddest “Jobs for Jihadi’s” program going with thousands, tens of thousands of shovel-ready projects available. Only 9 grams of lead, a gallon of gas, or some deft knife work needed for completion of each one. And big bonuses are there too, just for the taking.

  13. mc4ever59 says:

    Another year and a half of these assclowns in power is going to get a lot of people killed.

  14. Pablo says:

    On the contrary, this is anything but unfuckingbelieveable. It’s nearly a perfect map of the moral depravity of the entire ClownDisaster clique.

    Indeed. The problem isn’t jihad, the problem is Fox News according to the chief law enforcement officer in the land.

  15. Pablo says:

    And big bonuses are there too, just for the taking.

    Including all the pussy you can kidnap and enslave.

  16. happyfeet says:

    i do not agree that we should make jobs for obama’s terrorist friends

  17. dicentra says:

    You wingers are so dum.

    The way we won WWII was to address the ROOT EFFING CAUSES of Nazi Aryan supremacy and Japanese Imperialism.

    By giving them jobs.

    Hell0? Marshall Plan? You guys really gonna sit there and tell me that had no effect?

  18. Ernst Schreiber says:

    The first part of Germany’s and Japan’s recovery consisted largely of employing people to stack bodies and pile up rubble. Under armed guard, no less.

    Or was it to pile up bodies and stack rubble?

    Anyway, there were armed guards.

  19. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Anyway, so much for choosing to do the hard things. I guess JFK really was a reich-winger.

    Just like daddy, no doubt.

  20. gahrie says:

    Italy is freaking out about ISIS in Libya…..

    Eventually the Pope is going to man up and call a crusade, thousands of Christian volunteers will flock to the middle east and the game will finally be on.

  21. geoffb says:

    And they are eagerly awaiting just that.

    The Islamic State has attached great importance to the Syrian city of Dabiq, near Aleppo. It named its propaganda magazine after the town, and celebrated madly when (at great cost) it conquered Dabiq’s strategically unimportant plains. It is here, the Prophet reportedly said, that the armies of Rome will set up their camp. The armies of Islam will meet them, and Dabiq will be Rome’s Waterloo or its Antietam.

    “Dabiq is basically all farmland,” one Islamic State supporter recently tweeted. “You could imagine large battles taking place there.” The Islamic State’s propagandists drool with anticipation of this event, and constantly imply that it will come soon. The state’s magazine quotes Zarqawi as saying, “The spark has been lit here in Iraq, and its heat will continue to intensify … until it burns the crusader armies in Dabiq.” A recent propaganda video shows clips from Hollywood war movies set in medieval times—perhaps because many of the prophecies specify that the armies will be on horseback or carrying ancient weapons.

    Now that it has taken Dabiq, the Islamic State awaits the arrival of an enemy army there, whose defeat will initiate the countdown to the apocalypse. Western media frequently miss references to Dabiq in the Islamic State’s videos, and focus instead on lurid scenes of beheading. “Here we are, burying the first American crusader in Dabiq, eagerly waiting for the remainder of your armies to arrive,” said a masked executioner in a November video, showing the severed head of Peter (Abdul Rahman) Kassig, the aid worker who’d been held captive for more than a year. During fighting in Iraq in December, after mujahideen (perhaps inaccurately) reported having seen American soldiers in battle, Islamic State Twitter accounts erupted in spasms of pleasure, like overenthusiastic hosts or hostesses upon the arrival of the first guests at a party.

    The Prophetic narration that foretells the Dabiq battle refers to the enemy as Rome. Who “Rome” is, now that the pope has no army, remains a matter of debate. But Cerantonio makes a case that Rome meant the Eastern Roman empire, which had its capital in what is now Istanbul. We should think of Rome as the Republic of Turkey—the same republic that ended the last self-identified caliphate, 90 years ago. Other Islamic State sources suggest that Rome might mean any infidel army, and the Americans will do nicely.
    After mujahideen reported hav

  22. geoffb says:

    Quote should have stopped at “nicely.”

  23. geoffb says:

    Smarter than you’ll ever be, Smart-smart-smart.

    “So you suggested that maybe if you find these young men jobs, they might not become terrorists?” Blitzer asked, echoing her critics, prompting Harf to call his statement a “gross oversimplification.”

    “We cannot kill every terrorist around the world, nor should we try,” Harf said later. “How do you get at the root causes of this? It might be too nuanced an argument for some, like I’ve seen over the last 24 hours some of the commentary out there, but it’s really the smart way that Democrats, Republicans, our partners in the Arab world think we need to combat it.”

    Asked how she’s dealing with the criticism she has been receiving for her comments, Harf said, “I don’t read it.”

  24. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Silly Islamists. Meggido is where the world ends!

  25. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Marie Harf has a great future in some ISIS commander’s harem in front of her.

  26. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I know Dicentra was being sarcastic, but it’s worth remembering that Hitler’s jobs program/economic recovery came before the invasion of Poland.

    Or, you could read Jonah Goldberg on Il Duce.

  27. Caecus Caesar says:

    “Say, what?”

    Say Yeah!

  28. McGehee says:

    We shouldn’t try to kill all terrorists wherever we find them, because extinction is bad. Even the Lyme disease tick has a vital role to play in the environment.

  29. How about the tick that returns to my face every time I hear Barry or Lady Michbeth speaking? Huh, McGehee.

  30. cranky-d says:

    They are correct that we cannot kill every terrorist in the world. Getting them all is impossible.

    That doesn’t mean, however, that we cannot kill most of them, especially when they oblige us by concentrating themselves to make it easier. Until we get serious, they will continue to do what they do best. Well, second best.

    The lawn keeps growing every day. That means you need to mow on a regular basis.

  31. sdferr says:

    Here’s the ClownDisaster himself, seeking to demonstrate that he’s a greater moron than his servant, lil’ Missy Harf. As you might imagine, he doesn’t have to work very hard at it to get his point across. Which, hey, more time for golf.

  32. sdferr says:

    Including all the pussy you can kidnap and enslave.

    Darfur

    *** Without a resurgence of dormant anger over this brutalized region, no one bats an eye when the Sudanese foreign minister Ali Karti attends the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., as he did last week. ***

  33. sdferr says:

    Proud Democrat Jew-haters in the US Congress, whose ranks have grown by 3 since last week.

  34. sdferr says:

    Rudi Guliani speaks.

  35. LBascom says:

    “We cannot kill every terrorist around the world, nor should we try,” Harf said later

    Well, yes and no. We can’t kill them all, but we sure as hell need to give it our best shot. We need to kill as many as we can as fast as we can until any left beg us to stop.

    There are still Japanese left, we didn’t kill’em all in WWII…but we were going to do our best to kill them all until they quit. That’s the only way to win a war.

    Now days the Japanese are good friends, and a benefit to the world instead of the terror they were. There’s a lesson there, one so simple to understand and obvious it takes years of higher education performed on an immature but privileged people to miss.

    Be sure the Islamists understand the lesson completely…

  36. geoffb says:

    People talk a lot about Islamic extremism and ISIS/ISIL (the guys who behead Christians, among others), but what about Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army?

    “I don’t remember people talking about that as much anymore, but that’s a Christian militant group,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday.

    The LRA’s ideology is disputed among academics. Although the LRA has been regarded primarily as a Christian militia, the LRA reportedly evokes Acholi nationalism on occasion, but many observers doubt the sincerity of this behaviour and the loyalty of Kony to either ideology.

    Robert Gersony, in a report funded by United States Embassy in Kampala in 1997, concluded that “the LRA has no political program or ideology, at least none that the local population has heard or can understand.” The International Crisis Group has stated that “the LRA is not motivated by any identifiable political agenda, and its military strategy and tactics reflect this.”

    IRIN comments that “the LRA remains one of the least understood rebel movements in the world, and its ideology, as far as it has one, is difficult to understand.

  37. geoffb says:

    Also the #JobsforISIS statements could be seen as a “dogwhistle” to domestic grievance groups that the administration will have their backs if they too move onto actions similar to the ones ISIS is doing from what they have been doing, which has been like Islamist actions in France a year or two ago.

  38. McGehee says:

    Bob, if your tick doesn’t spread disease, its existence may be tolerated — but wouldn’t you rather get the chance to do without it?

  39. Oh, yes, very much so. But it’s gotten to the point where they’re EVERYWHERE…you know, like shit. Except I can’t flush ’em.

  40. bgbear says:

    How about midnite soccer leagues?

  41. dicentra says:

    The Islamic State has attached great importance to the Syrian city of Dabiq, near Aleppo.

    So that’s where we drop our first nuke, sounds like. Lure ’em all to the glorious, prophesied battle and win it in a mushroom cloud.

    Followed by Mecca and Medina, if necessary.

    Anyone who’s not yet read the article at The Atlantic that geoffb quoted, get ye hither and take the time to read the whole thing.

    Gives you a sense of how far out of our depth we are in terms of understanding the enemy’s aims and methods.

    They’re sure that events unfold as Allah wills them, not as a result of their actions, so they’re not very cagey about revealing their goals: we can try to thwart ISIS but Allah will make sure we lose.

  42. sdferr says:

    Dey got Dabiq

  43. dicentra says:

    Ok, here’s the problem with The Atlantic article: Dude thinks that the Caliphate can’t/won’t hurt us (they’re too focused on local prophecy, whereas al Qaeda wanted to kill distant devils) and that the “quiet Salafists” offer a viable alternative to those who want a pure Islam but not bloodshed.

    And that we just gotta bleed ISIS slowly until they destroy themselves from within and are thereby discredited.

    Twould be interesting to read an article from 1935 wherein Nazi doctrine is accurately set out but then dismissed as a minor danger because Hitler wants to conquer Russia and Europe, not the U.S., and besides, a movement that violent will inevitably consume itself before it comes to much.

    And if the Germans want national socialism without the bloodshed, there’s this dude in leiderhosen with a mimeograph machine who says you can be a perfectly good Teutonic fanatic without invading Poland.

  44. newrouter says:

    >Rudi Guliani speaks.<

    “This is like playing poker with a guy who cheated you before. You know who does that? A moron.”

  45. palaeomerus says:

    Hint for Roman Army.

    Drones.

    Just an advancing line of charged up big-dogs with spikes on the front and M-40 grenade machine-guns on the back. Then drop a spread o cluster bombs and white phosphorus on ALL of it.

  46. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I hear the administration wants to import trouble from Syria under the guise of granting refugee status.

    If they were talking about Jews or Christians, I’d applaud the initiative.

    Unfortunately, I can’t help thinking thinking that Obama has something else in mind.

  47. geoffb says:

    Another link. This time to a book review.

    The charismatic preachers—called “older brothers”—who attract young boys and men are largely trained in Saudi Arabia, Syria, or Iraq and have never lived outside a Muslim country. A great number do not speak French. Their followers—though born in France and French-speaking—are much more observant and separatist than their parents are and have much more extreme views on issues like sexuality (particularly homosexuality), female purity, and Jews and Israel. They and the older brothers can be seen policing certain neighborhoods, singling out girls and women whose dress they find inappropriate.

    […]

    The evidence has been there for anyone who cared to look for it, in books like those of Kepel and the growing literature of memoirs written by former teachers in the quartiers who gave up because they could not control their classes or enforce the principle of laicity. In 2004, for example, the Chirac government received a report it had commissioned on the presence of religious “signs and belonging” in the schools, which was promptly buried because its results were so disturbing. This Obin Report was based on on-site visits government inspectors made to over sixty middle and high schools across France, concentrating on disfavored quartiers.

    The extent to which life in many of them had been, to employ Kepel’s term, “halalized” shocked them. The report recounts stories of girls being under constant surveillance by self-appointed older brothers who mete out corporal punishment with fists and belts if they deem modesty to have been violated. Wearing skirts or dresses is impossible in many places, also for female teachers. There is an obsession with purity, as students and their parents demand separate swimming hours or refuse to let their children go on school trips where the sexes might mix. If they do go, some refuse to enter cathedrals or churches.

    There are fathers who won’t shake hands with female teachers, or let their wives speak alone to male teachers. There are cases of children refusing to sing, or dance, or learn an instrument, or draw a face, or use a mathematical symbol that resembles a cross. The question of dress and social mixing has led to the abandonment of gym classes in many places. Children also feel emboldened to refuse to read authors or books that they find religiously unacceptable: Rousseau, Molière, Madame Bovary. Certain subjects are taboo: evolution, sex ed, the Shoah. As one father told a teacher, “I forbid you to mention Jesus to my son.”

  48. geoffb says:

    I hear the administration wants to import trouble from Syria

    Gotta get those “older brothers” in so we can have our own quartiers.

  49. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I suppose we’ll know France is lost when the minarets go up around Notre Dame.

    Although, Sacre-Coeur de Montmartre seems a more likely candidate for repurposing, don’t you think?

  50. McGehee says:

    Underlying the terrorism is gangsterism.

  51. Ernst Schreiber says:

    More like last year’s children’s crusade and the now injuncted amnesty aren’t overwhelming the system fast enough.

    After all, you can’t start a Reichstag fire without a spark.

  52. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Gangsterism is just tribalism with better tailors.

  53. newrouter says:

    good luck trying to get the band back together

    Islamic State Fighters In Libya Burn Musical Instruments…

  54. Ernst Schreiber says:

    It’s a good thing Barak Obama’s a Democrat. Becase a Republican President would be getting excoriated for getting Kayla Miller killed about now.

  55. sdferr says:

    Well look, but that’s perfectly reasonable right, since both Egypt and Jordan are enemies of the ClownDisaster. Why? Easy, because they’re allies of Israel.

  56. geoffb says:

    One more for the road.

    Comparative religion is not a statistical exercise: it is meaningless to tally up the victims of Crusaders and compare them to the victims of Islam and quibble about which religion is more violent. Religious war of conquest, that is, jihad, has the same role in Islam that the Lord’s Supper has in Christianity. Christianity (and Judaism) have exercised violence in the past but never sacralized violence. That is unique to Islam among the self-styled Mosaic religions.

    The great German-Jewish theologian Franz Rosenzweig argued that Islam was not a monotheistic religion, but a “parody” of one, a monistic paganism in which the old pagan gods were rolled up into a single deity.

    […]

    It is important to get the theology right — not so much to understand the depredations of radical Islam, which hardly are obscure, but to understand what makes the West different. Violence is incidental to Judaism and Christianity and fundamental to Islam. It does us little good to denounce radical Islam if we forget who we are, and how we came to be here.

  57. sdferr says:

    ClownDisaster using the formulation “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” says: “Religion is not responsible for violence and terrorism,” he told the conference. “People are responsible for violence and terrorism.”

    But if, on the other hand, religion is only present in people, and is not some ethereal-substantive being free-floating apart from people, then we might conclude that what ClownDisaster is actually saying is this: There is no religion.

  58. geoffb says:

    “We are at war with people who perverted Islam.”

    One way to look at this statement and others of similar language is as attempts to “stir the pot.”

  59. newrouter says:

    >then we might conclude that what ClownDisaster is actually saying is this: There is no religion. <

    -There are two forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, taqiyya and kitman. These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause Islam – in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them. –

    link

    see also newrouter says February 18, 2015 at 8:25 am

    Obama and the Muslim Gang Sign
    – See more at: https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=56197#comment-1220032

  60. dicentra says:

    I suppose we’ll know France is lost when the minarets go up around Notre Dame.

    Around?

    We should be so lucky. On the ashes of is more likely. Though the Louvre will go first, what with its shameful depictions of nekkid humans, animals, and trees.

  61. dicentra says:

    Christianity (and Judaism) have exercised violence in the past but never sacralized violence.

    Christians and Jews have been violent in the past. It’s irrelevant that someone did something “in the name of” Christianity or Judaism — you can do anything “in the name of” anything. It’s exactly as meaningful as carrying one color flag or another.

    The only relevant question is whether someone acted according to the precepts of Christ or the Torah or Mohammad or Lao Tse.

    THAT’S IT.

    Self-identifying as belonging to a particular faith — especially if you’ve belonged to it for 10 generations — doesn’t say jack squat about you or your faith. It’s as valid as blaming German for Nazism or Latin for Teh Crusades or saying that someone who learned Chinese is by definition inscrutable.

    Did Jesus tell his followers to protect Jerusalem or Anatolia from invaders? Did he indicate that heretics must be weeded out regularly? (The parable of the wheat and tares says otherwise.)

    No, no he did not. So anyone slaughtering Muslims in the name of Christianity is a liar.

    Cripes, people on our side fall for this rhetorical crap, and I mean Jonah Goldberg. How hard is it to separate the TEACHINGS from the putative followers?

    Not hard at all, and still people insist on bullshit identity politics.

  62. John Bradley says:

    In “here boy!” related news…

  63. newrouter says:

    brown guy calling brown guy boy lol

  64. newrouter says:

    jeb: bush lied peeps die

    >”Using the intelligence capability that everybody embraced about weapons of mass destruction was not, turns out to not be accurate,” Jeb Bush said, being sure to note, accurately, that the intelligence estimate of Iraq’s WMD capabilities was shared by many other nation’s intelligence agencies.

    He then added: “Not creating an environment of security after the successful taking out of Hussein was a mistake because Iraqis wanted security more than anything else.” This was ostensibly as much of a criticism of George W. Bush’s defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, as it was of the former president himself. Rumsfeld has been faulted with not sending more troops to Iraq to deal with the post-invasion occupation. <

    link

  65. Spengler wrote [as quoted by GeoffB above]: It is important to get the theology right — not so much to understand the depredations of radical Islam…. in an otherwise spot-on remark.

    The phrase ‘radical Islam’ is redundant. The whole damn Ideology is Radical.

    It’s so damn frustrating that such men refuse to understand the Truth of this, because such blinkered thinking provides aid and comfort to The Enemy.

  66. newrouter says:

    >The phrase ‘radical Islam<

    #isisisislam

  67. dicentra says:

    such blinkered thinking provides aid and comfort to The Enemy.

    I think that’s the POINT.

    They’re welcoming their new Muslim overlords.

  68. geoffb says:

    No, it is a rhetorical method to get someone to read to the end where we find that “radical Islam” is the only one there is.

    What distinguishes Allah from YHWH and (in Christian belief) his son Jesus is love. God gives Jews and Christians a path that their foot can tread, one that is not too hard for mortals, to secure the unobtainable, namely immortal life, as if by miracle. Out of love God gives the Torah to the Jews, not because God is a stickler for the execution of 613 commandments, but because it is a path upon which the Jew may sacrifice and yet live, and receive his portion of the World to Come. The most important sacrifice in Judaism is the Sabbath — “our offering of rest,” says the congregation in the Sabbath prayers — a day of inactivity that acknowledges that the Earth is the Lord’s. It is a sacrifice, as it were, of ego. In this framework, incidentally, it is pointless to distinguish Judaism as a “religion of works” as opposed to Christianity as a “religion of faith.”

    To Christians, God offers the vicarious participation in his sacrifice of himself through his only son.

    That is Christian Grace: a free gift by God to men such that they may obtain eternal life. By a miracle, the human soul responds to the offer of Grace with a leap, a leap away from the attachments that hold us to this world, and a foretaste of the World to Come.

    There is no Grace in Islam, no miracle, no expiatory sacrifice, no expression of love for mankind such that each Muslim need not be a sacrifice. On the contrary, the concept of jihad, in which the congregation of Islam is also the army, states that every single Muslim must sacrifice himself personally. Jihad is the precise equivalent of the Lord’s Supper in Christianity and the Jewish Sabbath, the defining expression of sacrifice that opens the prospect of eternity to the mortal believer. To ask Islam to become moderate, to reform, to become a peaceful religion of personal conscience is the precise equivalent of asking Catholics to abolish Mass.

  69. palaeomerus says:

    Beware the Gruberous Harf my lad
    The lies that blind the tropes that trip
    And most of all avoid the song
    Of the Obamanous Golfadrip.

  70. eCurmudgeon says:

    So that’s where we drop our first nuke, sounds like. Lure ‘em all to the glorious, prophesied battle and win it in a mushroom cloud.

    Followed by Mecca and Medina, if necessary.

    No need for nukes, though. I’m thinking something more Biblical – 40 days and 40 nights of round-the-clock “Arc Light” carpet-bombing.

    Turn the buildings to rubble. Then the rubble to gravel. Then the gravel to sand. And then bounce the sand around for a while…

  71. Ernst Schreiber says:

    “Religion is not responsible for violence and terrorism,” he told the conference. “People are responsible for violence and terrorism.”

    and

    “We are at war with people who perverted Islam.”

    Isn’t it funny how downright imperialistic the multi-culturalists get on this one issue.

    Almost as if they think they know Islam better than muslims do.

  72. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Let me be perfectly clear.

    Everything that follows is a bald-faced lie.

  73. Ernst Schreiber says:

    We should be so lucky [to see Notre Dame turned into a mosque]. On the ashes of is more likely. Though the Louvre will go first, what with its shameful depictions of nekkid humans, animals, and trees.

    I’ll concede that I may have naively thought that ISIS would prove as sophisticated as were the Ottomans when they captured Constantinople.

  74. palaeomerus says:

    Let me be perfectly clear = Mandrake gestures hypnotically

  75. McGehee says:

    Gangsterism is just tribalism with better tailors.

    Heh. Then again, these days what isn’t?

  76. I stand corrected Geoff.

    In my anger, I failed to notice the tactic. I should never comment while in the grip of Despair [I try not to].

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