Enough with the myths.
Not everyone on earth is crying out for freedom. There are plenty of people who are happy in their misery, believing that their suffering is part and parcel of a correct religious system. Those people direct their anger outward, targeting unbelievers.

One might say they cling to their religion.

As you wish, infidel!!! NO ONE CAN STOP THE POWER OF ISLAMIC LUCHA LIBRE!!!!! ALLAHU ARMBAR!!!!!!!!

That reminds me of NY Representative Charlie Rangel.

Charlie Rangel fought with distinction in Korea, you treasonous fucking slime.

I dearly recall the O’Reilly Factor episode where old Bill actually presented the breakdown of American combat troops by race and economic background.

Your cock-worship betrays you again, Pravda: even among his fellow old-media whores, Sir Two-Peabodies Bill O’Reilly, KBE, is known for swinging for the fence when it comes to making shit up. On prior occasions, he had suggested:
– ‘the Lord helps those who help themselves’ was a quotation of Christ (it flies directly in the face of every book of Scripture, which generally involves nothing as much as proud, self-sufficient men being laid low by God);
- that 58% of single mothers were on welfare (14%);
-that celebrities are at a severe disadvantage in libel/slander cases (they aren’t);
- that the Kinsey studies were basically similar to Mengele’s medical torture in the Holocaust (no fucking comment);
- that Europe generally and Denmark especially has no laws against rape, child molestation, and incest, which are consequently rife there (untrue);
- and a grand Munchhausenian house of lies unequalled by any other public personality, including specific lies about where he was raised, his family’s economic status, his schooling, his partisan affiliation, his journalistic experience and recognition; and his fundamental coherence, independence, and integrity on issues as diverse as the Iraq war (as of 2007, he always knew it was a bad idea), Saddam Hussein (not a credible threat under Clinton, a dire risk under Bush), and pretty much every fucking issue of consequence over the last twenty years.

Bill O’Reilly is a liar and a fraud of the highest caliber. Citing him as a source illustrates you are either such a rube you would willingly offer your mental space to such a crass, self-obsessed charlatan, or that you are so completely amoral you’d cite Jeffrey Dahmer to gain an up against the terrible nig-nogs.

Of course, it’s quite possible – and I’m inclined to believe – that you’re both stupid and evil.

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On the specific matter at issue here – in spite of an obscurantist ‘study’ (metaanalysis and the shuffling about of services to arrive at amicable numbers, surveys smushed together from years of divergence, etc) by the Heritage Foundation, the army has only very recently begun disproportionately representing whites at the enlistee level (as of 2002, whites formed 58% (v. about 60% of the population) blacks 25% (12%), and Hispanics 10% (11%).

(I treat the Army here because they publish their numbers fairly heavily, but Air Force numbers are white-heavier and Navy numbers – if memory serves – less so. Also, for every branch of the Service women are, for both enlistees and NCOs, either majority or plurality black. And go ahead and try and peddle that ‘darkies contribute nothing to our doughty forces’ line to the Marines. See how they react.)

While it might no doubt bring joy to your ugly little heart to learn that blacks now represent a lower relative proportion of the service than they have at any point in history, the Army considers it – along with the stunning reversal of twenty solid years of progress towards lowering the 75-80% domination of the officer corps by whites – a major crisis; the Army, while conservative, is extremely meritocratic and considers heavy representation of minorities and the poor a desirable outcome. (Our volunteer army’s ability to offer college and career assistance is especially seductive to people for whom options in higher education are otherwise fairly lacking.)

A decade of concerted efforts to break down social development and educational assisstance programmes are primarily to blame – there are far fewer people coming into recruiting age now than ten years ago who could be helped with higher education by the Army and have any reason to see higher education as a viable path for their futures – and so is the extreme politicization of the Army brass and image over the Bush administration. (By contrast, black recruitment numbers never slumped like this under Reagan, and Caspar Weinberger – regarded as too much of a GOP wonk to be trusted readily with the nonpartisan Defense department – was less shrill than Gates, let alone Rumsfeld.)

I understand you’ve got an abiding hate for them coloreds for keeping you out of Harvard and the Klan, but you’re just embarassing yourself. If you’re going to stumble in reeking of spoilt saltwater taffy and sputtering juicily, don’t make the next thing you do citing a guy well-known for demanding fellatio from his adherents.

A white flag with a picture of a burning American flag on it.

Er, maybe it is because some educated middle class people embrace extremist causes because they are outraged by things like poverty and oppression.

If you give Ben Shapiro pointy ears and a blue Star Trek uniform, I see an eerie resemblance to a young Spock.

Ben has been striving for years to bury his boyhood, in a sort of misguided belief that he’ll be taken more seriously. While we await the inevitable mustache and beard, as soon as he’s able to grow ‘em, we’ll have to endure the affectations he’s come up with, namely:

The Look: I’m reminded of the 1975 Carpenters album “Horizon”, with the formerly happy-faced Karen and Richard all grim-looking on the album cover. Clearly the Photog had told them: “lose the shit-eating grins, please, they make you look like dopey teenagers.”

The Cynicism: Again, Ben is shooting for “wisdom” by affecting a trait traditionally associated with old age, but only achieves “boring old fart who craps on and on” status. In this case I’m reminded of a conversation between Louis Mazzini and Sibella in “Kind Hearts and Coronets” in which Sibella confesses that she finds her fiance Lionel to be “the most boring man in London… England… No, Europe!.”

Louis comments: “I must admit he exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I’ve ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.”

I can’t remember if it was TBogg, or Roy or these guys who made that comparison, but yes, it’s been made.

I’m zoned out on meds right now and too lazy to find the post.

I’m probably not, but I’m too lazy to follow everyone else’s links.

what the figgety fuck does “having a voice” MEAN for Young Master Benjamin, if it doesn’t have anything to do with letting workers agitate for better conditions?
They are allowed to sing.

They should also be allowed to glue their posters — they should be allowed to think!

The Jews were suspected, and when they were led to the corpse, blood allegedly began to flow from the wounds[...]
According to the accusation, the Jews had suspended a child (whose body was found in the Lauter river) by the feet, and had opened every artery in its body in order to obtain all the blood. Again, supernatural claims were made: the child’s wounds were said to have bled for five days afterward, despite its treatment.

(I think you were the guy.)

Moron.

The Population Reference Bureau has a report here, which says you’re wrong, but we already knew that.

I have links and facts, you have wankers that you saw on the teevee.

Honestly I don’t know why I waste my time looking this shit up when it’s just easier to assume you are lying, stupid, or both.

The fact is, the recession cannot be blamed on the wealthy. They are doing their part, creating wealth and opportunity. Since 2/3 of our economic activity is consumer spending, and consumers are not spending, whos fault? Look in a mirror liberals before you castigate those who deserve their rewards. Maybe you should do your part instead of waiting for a handout.

Talk about teh stoopid!

Look, “Gary”, you fucking pinhead, “consumers” are those who — gasp! — consume. Do you think that this does NOT include “the wealthy”? Do you think that when they buy their yachts and high-class hookers and Cristal champagne that they are not “consuming”?

And since “the wealthy” have most of the, uh, wealth in this country (the richest 1% own over 40% of this country’s wealth), then most consumer spending is by “the wealthy”. Presumably this is obvious even to someone as dense as yourself.

So, if it’s consumer spending that’s the culprit in this recession (arguable point, but let’s stipulate to it), then quite obviously it is “the wealthy” who are NOT consuming “enough”. Why aren’t you blaming them?

I know, silly question.

As others have noted, Mr. Grumpy’s mood seems to have followed his getting hitched.

My bet is that the the problem was on his wedding night, inexperience conservitard virgin that he was:

Ben: “Okay, honey, here goes..”
“Oh…mmm.. did you just..”
Ben: “finish? No!”
“..start? Really? Oh well *deep sigh*”

and it all went downhill from there.

I get no kick from champagne…