Comments on: Speaking Truth To Powerlessness

By: Kylie

Kylie — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:44:37 +0000

Oh yeah, Andrew Klavan. Is he the guy who wrote that book about how innocent fathers are constantly being accused of being child-molesting kiddie pornographers, just because their toddler-age daughters innocently peer between their legs and pull their vaginal lips open for the camera when their fathers are taking pictures of them in the bath? Or was that some other author with a K last name? I know he wrote that dumb novel that got made into a Michael Douglas movie featuring Brittany Murphy in a psych ward. Either way I am somehow not the slightest bit surprised to hear he’s spouting this sort of thing.

By: FlipYrWhig

FlipYrWhig — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:50:53 +0000

Particularly if heâ€™s tied on his horse at the time.

From a great poet at my middle school: “A corpse on a horse, of course, of course…”

By: El Cid

El Cid — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:37:37 +0000

El Cid, by the way, is from the Arabic generalized term, As-Sayyid, or roughly, ‘Your lordship’.

He was a hired merc for both Spanish Christian and Spanish Moorish forces. Not a particularly great guy, but a cool poem.

By: Karl Rove II

Karl Rove II — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:51:43 +0000

â€œthe thing I like best about being a conservative is that I donâ€™t have to lie.â€?

Except to his wife, about why he can no longer maintain an erection in bed…but can get a major woody by watching RAW.

It sings!

By: Qetesh the Abyssinian

Qetesh the Abyssinian — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:38:42 +0000

DocAmazing, hadn’t noticed until you pointed it out. But yes, I guess so. Particularly if he’s tied on his horse at the time.

By: DocAmazing

DocAmazing — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:52:08 +0000

Does anyone else find a lesson in Arabic from El Cid funny?

Okay, too much Spanish history trivia…

By: M. Bouffant

M. Bouffant — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:51:15 +0000

H. Holland: You so right. L. A. is the Capital of Kansas, as the Mad Meltz says. A few years back the good burghers of the San Fernando Valley (the big ugly northern lump of town) wanted to secede from the rest of us to avoid excessive swarthiness, if you know what I mean.
And Klavan is just one of those sickening pervs who conflates sex & violence, writes almost-porn, and then claims he’s just trying to show how awful all those possessed by “evil” are, and how he’s doing it for “the kids.”
I bet he’d love it if someone plucked out his working eye, he’d look double-macho with two eye patches.

By: El Cid

El Cid — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:51:20 +0000

Oops. Here’s a reference.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/i/i0247700.html

By: El Cid

El Cid — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:50:18 +0000

If someone’s going to discuss what “Islam” *means*, then surely he or she will also point out that Arabic, like Hebrew, forms most of their words from a three consonant root (tri-consonantal), and by adding various prefixes, suffixes, vowels, and in-fixes you create many shades of meaning and different parts of speech and sentence roles.

So, “Salama” is the most simple form of the s-l-m (Sim Lan Mim) root which forms “Islam”, and literally it means he (3rd person) submitted or obeyed {past tense}.

That’s why you have both Islam and Muslim — same s-l-m root. (Same root as “shalom” in Hebrew.)

Here’s a better etymology than just leaving it as “Islam means submit,” as though in Christianity “forgiveness” just means not being mad at someone for what they did wrong.

[Arabic 'islam {long "ah"}, submission, from 'aslama, to surrender, resign oneself, from Syriac 'as{h}lem, to make peace, surrender, derived stem of s{h}lem, to be complete; see slm in Semitic roots.]

By: Henry Holland

Henry Holland — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:47:44 +0000

As a longtime Southern Californian, I really get annoyed at the whole “SoCal is a liberal hotbed” nonsense. No, the Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills and on to the beach and a few other places are liberal, the majority of it is pretty conservative. It’s all relative, of course; “conservative” here = worshipper of Stalin and Mao in Alabama. Still, if you go 20 minutes from downtown Los Angeles, you can end up in time warps like Monrovia (member of Congress: David Dreier), where the motto seems to be: We’re not going to acknowledge that the 60′s and 70′s ever happened, ever.

Why do I get the feeling that his poker games went something like this:

Other dudes: Blah blah sports blah blah pussy blah blah beer blah blah latest action adventure movie blah blah cars blah blah
Cliffie: Boy, Bush’s plan for Social Security rocks!
Other dudes: Um, right, Cliffie. Blah blah sports blah blah pussy blah blah beer blah blah latest action adventure movie blah blah cars blah blah
Cliffie: Help help, I’m being repressed!

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:50:25 +0000

but what gob-smacks me is the use of the word â€œobloquy.â€?
I disagree; it’s a perfectly good word, and it would be folly to renounce its use. Especially in a Scrabble game.

By: g

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:28:54 +0000

the thing I like best about being a conservative is that I donâ€™t have to think

Fixed his typo.

By: gordonsowner

gordonsowner — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:24:25 +0000

errr… scratch my last post… it came up after 3mins…

By: gordonsowner

gordonsowner — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:23:12 +0000

Anybody else having trouble with the Hannity link at the end? (http://www.opednews.com/wade_072704_hannity.htm). I get the outer adds, but firefox just keeps spinning and i never get the text. anybody have an alternate link or can post the text?

By: FlipYrWhig

FlipYrWhig — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:30:24 +0000

the thing I like best about being a conservative is that I donâ€™t have to lie

“_Have_ to lie,” maybe not. But it’s a popular avocation among their people.

By: Ms. Clio

Ms. Clio — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:22:31 +0000

okay, see, but what gob-smacks me is the use of the word “obloquy.”

What an asshat.

By: Han Solo

Han Solo — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:41:42 +0000

You know your sarcasm is good when others mistake it for truth.

Score 1 for T4Tornado!

Great, kid. Don’t get cocky.

By: Ed Marshall

Ed Marshall — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:49:46 +0000

Islam in Arabic means roughly “surrender”, submit is way closer than peace.

I’m not sure where you got that, but it’s not true.

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:29:56 +0000

I donâ€™t have to pretend that men and women are the same. I donâ€™t have to declare that failed or oppressive cultures are as good as mine. I donâ€™t have to say that everyoneâ€™s special or that the rich cause poverty or that all religions are a path to God. I donâ€™t have to claim that a bad writer like Alice Walker is a good one or that a good writer like Toni Morrison is a great one. I donâ€™t have to pretend that Islam means peace.

And I don’t have to pretend equal gender rights means I think people are identical. I don’t have to pretend that failure and oppression either don’t happen or don’t matter when judging cultures I approve of. I don’t have to pretend Christians are special or the rich are victims or religion is worthy of any special consideration over any other thought system. I don’t have to claim “300″ was a “terrific picture, one of the best in years,” or that “The Passion of the Christ” was anything more than a snuff flick. I don’t have to pretend that Christianity has no bodies in the backyard or vicious “mullahs” of its own.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:29:26 +0000

I donâ€™t have to pretend that Leftists and Fascists are the same. I donâ€™t have to declare that failed or oppressive cultures should be attacked by my military. I donâ€™t have to say that Christians are special or that the Liberals are all rich or that my religion is the only one that matters. I donâ€™t have to claim that a bad writer like Andrew Klavan is a good one. I donâ€™t have to pretend that President Bush means well.