Comments on: There’s a fine line between being a bad ass and a douchebag…

By: Donald Zerli, Patriot

Donald Zerli, Patriot — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:38:08 +0000

See the Wikipedia definition of “non-sequitur”, by the way.

By: Donald Zerli, Patriot

Donald Zerli, Patriot — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:36:30 +0000

Fish.

By: lako

lako — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:47:01 +0000

that’s why u have one of the lowest ratios of civilians/armed men deaths in recent history of wars and military operations… (even using the numbers quoted by palestinians…). yes, seems reasonable.

By: lako

lako — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:44:52 +0000

you’re funny. then what would you say about muslims? 10 million muslims died by hand of other muslims. the vast majority of the others have died by hands of christians (mainly russia, US and UK).
and the growing number of palestinians just makes your claim about israel trying to do ethnic cleansing absurd. the numbers of palestinians seeking jobs and medical care in israel also tells a different story… and anyway, it doesn’t have anything to do with respecting the memory of the holocaust. but i don’t think these things actually bother you, or that you ever had any respect to the victims of the nazis (after all, mein kampf is a best seller in most muslim countries, as well as in the palestinian authority).

By: lako

lako — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:39:09 +0000

israel doesnt just “bomb” them. but of course, even if you’re firing a rocket, you’re humanitarian aid. also, the geneva convention states that when fired upon, you can return fire, and that the use of human shield is a war crime – and any civilian hurt due to exchange of fire, is therefore the responsibility of the side using human shields.

also, your claim about the amount of injured/dead is wrong (and i don’t even refer to the number of casualties, which is also wrong) – this is clearly and act of agression, and it is aimed at killing people. the only reason preventing a lot of casualties, is the lack of advanced of technology by the palestinians, and preventive measures taken by israel and israelis. reaction to this kind of agression, is also allowed by international law. also, what you basically say is – “well, if a lot of jews are dead, it’s ok if israel react. as long as someone just tries to kill israelis, it’s ok, and you shouldn’t do anything against it”. dunno, seems kinda weird statement to me…
and actually, it DOES matter how it started. 2 dead kidnappers is better than one dead hostage, even if lives are equal.

By: lako

lako — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:31:46 +0000

wow, you’re very ignorant. the country was called palestine, due to the name romans gave it after the jewish revolt in 132-136. it was called after the philistines (nothing to do with muslims/arabs – they were invaders of european origins, that disapperad long before even the romans got there). there was never an arab or muslim state that went by that name, and anyone who lived here (including jews) under the british mandate was a “palestinian”. the palestinians took their name from the country, and even that they did only in the 20th century. the word palestine, of course, have no origin in arab language, and of course no mention of “palestine” or “palestinian people” until the 20th century.

By: lako

lako — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:25:40 +0000

guess jews staying in europe was a great success. 2000 years of persecutions really was a lot of fun.
anyway, jews have more claim to that country then anyone else, and just for the record – jews got there also from asia, america and africa.
btw, you know why almost no jews in muslim countries? they were driven away, in bigger numbers than the palestinians (who most ran away even before seeing any israeli troops, since they were expecting victory by arab countries over israel in 1948, planning to go back afterwards).

By: lako

lako — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:18:53 +0000

protect the muslim world from israel? are you refering to the same more than 1 billion people-third of the countries in the world-having vast amounts of oil-muslim world? from a 7 million (20% arabs) state, smaller the new jersey country? and when did u need to intervene during the sharon’s administration exactly? and don’t know what iraq has to do with it.

By: lako

lako — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:13:33 +0000

of course, you’re just exaggerating, taking things out of context, and making an uneven and unjust parallel between israel and nazi germany… it would be a bit more fair if you would specify about what incident you’re talking about.
of course these kind of things happen in most wars, but only israel is “like the nazis”. due to the fact that the number of palestinians just grows in time, and that a lot of them seek jobs and medical care in israel, i find it hard to claim that israel is trying to perform genocide. but then again, maybe i’m just making it all up.

By: lako

lako — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:03:41 +0000

first of all, even the UN admitted that the school wasn’t bombed, and those were false accusations.
second, there was mortar fire from the vicinity of the school – so i think you should point your finger to those who fire in proximity to civilian. even international law states that when fired upon, you can return fire, whereas the use of human shield is considered a war crime.
and what is “this sort of thing”? firing rockets at civilians? well, the palestinians were great at doing this for 8 years.

By: lako

lako — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:58:54 +0000

what exactly is not true? can you be more specific

By: lako

lako — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:57:24 +0000

actually… those “strangers” inhabitted the land of israel consecutively for about 3000 years, long before the arab conquest of the 7-8th centuries. the country was sparsely populated by arabs when big waves of jews begun coming back their homeland, and only then big waves of arabs from neighboring countries begun coming also, in search for jobs (after the jews started developing the land). nobody told arabs to move – lands were bought legaly, and the arabs were also given a big chunk of land (about 75% of what was originally promised to the jewish country) to have their own state. that country is called jordan today, btw.

By: lako

lako — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:48:26 +0000

first of all, it’s not an israeli soldier, and they are not palestinians. the snow in the background kinda ruins your false claim. second, i’m quite doubtful you saw israeli soldier point guns at children, and even less confident you saw them shooting at them. i would like to see some proof.
third, even in this pic, the soldier is not pointing the gun to the child, as mentioned by comentators above me.

By: Brianna

Brianna — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:41:23 +0000

I don’t find it funny. And neither do the kids parents evidently. They seem like they feel highly threatned.

By: Froob

Froob — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:42:59 +0000

Good job on catching this attempt at trying to slander Israel by point out that that is a Georgian soldier not Israel, Kudos. By the way you might want to change your name, it sounds all too similar to the genocidal Cosack.

By: G. Crizzy

G. Crizzy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:52:54 +0000

I can’t believe someone else is using “douche nozzle”. I started that up forever ago. I’ve used the term everywhere and I see it seems to be catching on. Either that, or I’m clearly not the only one on the planet who realizes that it isn’t the douche BAG that is the part that gets “dirty”. It’s actually the “nozzle”. But, I begin to think that you heard it from a long line of people that begin from hearing it from me because of the use of the word “nozzle” as opposed to someone saying douche “tube” or otherwise.
Anyway, whether you essentially got that from me or not, I’m just really excited that it’s spreading. The knowledge of the nozzle is officially spreading! Woo!

By: Snarkygal

Snarkygal — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:57:04 +0000

The fine line between intellectual and douchebag… someone just crossed it.

By: Jewish mama

Jewish mama — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:59:31 +0000

First of all, this picture is of an Israeli soldier pointing at Palestinians.
As a Jewish mother who has spent lots of time in Israel/Palestine…I have
seen many Israeli soldiers not only point their guns/tanks etc.
at children, but actually fire upon them.

check out http://www.electronicintifada.org for more info.

By: kellbell

kellbell — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:07:49 +0000

by far the BEST comment on this page!!!! epic win.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:34:44 +0000

I mostly live among people who are like thick organic fog…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:30:21 +0000

I bet you’re fun at tent revivals…

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:19:26 +0000

Nicely put.

By: somebody

somebody — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:01:02 +0000

People really forget that, don’t they? We wouldn’t have a USA in the first place if the people hadn’t been armed and able to resist the opression.

Some people think I am strange because I have no interest in actual guns but I support the NRA. I am no “gun nut” but I am a “second amendment nut”.

If you support the US constitution, you don’t get to pick and choose which parts of it you support or interpret as intended. If you think that the second amendment is outdated and no longer needed, then push to get it repealed. I will think you are wrong and I will tell you why, but I will have more respect for you than I do for those who try to put words in the mouths of the writers of the constitution and think we can just do an end-run around ANY of the amendments, the second or otherwise.

But there are so many things about the republican party I don’t agree with, I find myself in a difficult spot. I voted for Bob Barr.

By: somebody

somebody — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:51:44 +0000

Any man pointing a gun at me when I am unarmed is going to get called “sir” or whatever else he likes.

By: somebody

somebody — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:37:50 +0000

Oh, I agree, kids can be really dangerous at that age.

But you shouldn’t get anywhere near them, even with a gun, before you put on a gas mask. That’s the only thing that will let you past their secret weapon.

By: AS

AS — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:11:11 +0000

The soldier is IDF. The Israelis have had M-16’s in their
arsenals for years. The sling attached with paracord is a dead
giveaway. I wouldn’t blame the guy for being a little on edge, as
it’s well documented that the various radical muslim groups sometimes
strap bombs to women and children. It’s a rather sad situation.

By: Kosake

Kosake — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:09:58 +0000

I would think, the picture is from Georgia or that new State of Ossetia. The uniform is not russian, so it is a Georgian soldier. The M4-Car just supports that thesis. They got several hundred thousands of them half a year or so before they attacked.

About Gaza: There are no pictures, because the Israelian military does not want shitheads to run around their tanks and getting stuck in the tracks. Do you even know, what a horrible job it is, to get the tank clean afterwards??? I would not let anyone run around my armor too.

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:47:55 +0000

In Gazza? Geez – poor old Gazza, I was jus’ ‘avin a beer with ‘im yesterday, an’ now ‘e’s got a war? I’ll go’n warn Mozza and Fezza – they were goin’ to a barbie t’night…

By: Charlie Foxtrot

Charlie Foxtrot — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:15:05 +0000

it is NOT an American Soldier, the weapon is right and it is a good weapon that anyone would be glad to own.

By: kia

kia — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:57:50 +0000

im not anti american…… wtf made u think that?

and still wat diffrence does it make? cyrus kar got arrested in iraq because he was middle eastern. did i mention he was a marine?

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:58:22 +0000

Thanks for the expanded explanation, ubr! They do sound a bit…paranoid.

By: ubr

ubr — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:55:15 +0000

here’s how the armored truck thing went…
five friends and i were walking up to the mall door where the armored car was parked. this was several years ago and we all looked a little bit… um… dirty? I guess? I was in college at the time so we definitely did not look like upstanding citizens. It was winter so we were bundled up too… as we were about 100ft from the armored car the two guards with the money bags came out of the mall and as soon as they saw us they drew their pistols and placed them behind the money bags in a gesture that means “don’t come near us, we have guns.” The dude who was watching the door of the armored truck turned and pulled out his gun too. When we all saw the guns come out our first instinct was to put our hands up and stop walking towards the truck.
This was in the united states in orange county california no less…
And if we had tried to get these guards into trouble for pulling on us it wouldn’t have gotten anywhere. The guards have permitted guns and as long as they are not menacing, i.e. threatening to shoot you, then you really don’t have much of a case…

By: Rami

Rami — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:19:10 +0000

Oh, there are too much people from israel who is talking about inhumans! the same as the Germans did in WW2. I will stop respect Holocaust memory from today. because Israel today is not respecting people of other natioan the same as did germans with them some day. Israelis are not better.

By: Rami

Rami — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:14:30 +0000

So indeans can claim almost are americans as illegals! YAY! and citizens of ROME can claim Europe as its province…awsome!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:13:27 +0000

Too bad that’s obviously a U.N. peacekeeper and not a U.S. soldier.

ACCURACY and ANTI-AMERICA FAIL

By: Rami

Rami — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:11:44 +0000

WTF?! There was always Palestine!! What was the name of the land before Israel was created?!!?!?!?

By: Rami

Rami — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:07:26 +0000

Those are cheap lies. Every single world except the 6 millions died in WW2. But Israel has nothing to do with those people.

By: Cthulhu is hurt

Cthulhu is hurt — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:03:51 +0000

@DWN: Dude…I told you I’d pay you back when I got my tax refund. I thought we were cool.

By: Rami

Rami — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:01:42 +0000

They are useless as shields. Israel still bombing them all.

By: Rami

Rami — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:59:39 +0000

come on a war going on in Gazza! and you are guessing what soldier is

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:20:55 +0000

Thank you rho; it’s 3 girls and 1 boy, but the oldest 2 girls are out on their own (more or less) at this point. But, yes, I’m definitely female!

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:19:56 +0000

From a linguistics POV, if you took a 1 century BCE Roman, and dropped him into modern central Spain, if you didn’t do it from to extreme a hight, he’d get by pretty well with the local language… Same with modern Romania.
In many respects, the Florentine dialect that became modern Italian, has less in common with Latin than a lot of languages further a field…

But hey, I was impressed you knew ‘Veni. Vidi. Vici.’ Often even mild classicism is beyond most folks…

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:56:47 +0000

Media?! we dont need to stinking media! We got Joe the Reporter!!!

By: rhorho

rhorho — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:24:36 +0000

…and diss is a lovely lady, bringing up 2(?)
very lovely girls, I believe.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:22:26 +0000

Those were POINTS, not demerits!!

By: rhorho

rhorho — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:20:58 +0000

*sings (tune: “I’ve Got a Secret”)*

Jane is made of WI-IN!
Jane is made of WI-IN!

By: rhorho

rhorho — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:16:26 +0000

Yeah, but he bought the drinks , so what are
you going to do?

By: rhorho

rhorho — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:14:35 +0000

No, only this…

*hands MLD bottle of ether*

(I don’t think MG needs it anymore.)

By: LB

LB — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:53:16 +0000

(*Ma’am, just for the record) Hehe thanks, I try. I have no patience for the ignorant.

By: MLD

MLD — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:41:07 +0000

or the mall or walmart