Has everyone gone mad?

[Guest]

Funny enough, another law enforcement official who also asked not to be identified said the Martians are planning a full scale invasion.

I'm not invading anybody. Though I have had a few thoughts...


Oh...

Wait...

MartiAns.

Nevermind.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

On the one hand, you must understand who actually votes in those polls.

A relatively sensible person { Lauren} will take one look at something like that, become incensed, and write a post pointing out the idiocy of the event, at their favorite bulletin board.

Only a fully-moronic mouth breather is going to waste time participating in such an imbecilic exercise.

On the other paw, this is not the first piece of stupidity instigated by our Bushleague Fearleader.

For those who didn’t read my post in the Ashcroft, 0-5,000 thread — or didn’t read it all — there was another such idiocy not too long ago.

. . . And in late July, resurrecting the ideological-exclusion practices so familiar from the cold war, the Department of Homeland Security revoked a work visa for a prominent Swiss Islamic scholar who had been hired by Notre Dame for an endowed chair in its International Peace Studies Institute. DHS invoked a Patriot Act provision that, like the McCarran-Walter Act of the cold war, authorizes exclusion based purely on speech. If a person uses his position of prominence to "endorse" terrorism or terrorist organizations, the Patriot Act says, he may not enter the United States. The McCarran-Walter Act, on the books until its repeal in 1990, was used to exclude such "subversives" as Czeslaw Milosz and Graham Greene. This time the man whose views are too dangerous for Americans to hear firsthand is Tariq Ramadan, a highly respected intellectual and author of more than twenty books who was named by Time magazine as one of the hundred most likely innovators of the twenty-first century.

Notre Dame is not known as a hotbed of Islamic extremism--and Ramadan is no extremist. He argues for a modernized version of Islam that promotes tolerance and women's rights. Two days after 9/11 he called on fellow Muslims to condemn the attacks. In short, Ramadan is precisely the kind of moderate voice in Islam that the United States should be courting if it hopes to isolate Al Qaeda. The barring of Ramadan reinforces the sense that the Administration cannot or will not distinguish between moderates and extremists and is simply anti-Muslim. . .

 

[snooper]

If I travelled as Oggbashan I think I'd be banned from the US.

As the real me I am unwelcome in some parts of the world just because I have a beard, and in others because I am British.

Og

Og, the message I get is that NOBODY is welcome in the US at the moment.

As far as I am concerned they can keep their country foreigner-free and Muslim-free if they want to do so, and I will help them by not even trying to go there, written invitation from the US Government or not.

But off to one side somewhere I hear the word "bigots" being used.