sandinista!

that's very possible, though i'm still inclined to take the word of a guy who's not even been able to successfully cross the border, much less start working here, with a big grain of salt. people in impoverished countries believe all kinds of crazy shite about how much money they're going to be making when they finally make it to the us of a. you should hear some of the bs that's believed as fact about american employment and money making opportunities by moroccans. i doubt it's that much different from what people'll believe in mexico.

The horror!

Thank you Golden Gate. When the time is right I know he will show up.
I believe in love and marriage and that I have a lot to offer to that special someone. This one just wasn't the one.

go right ahead

I picked up a pack of Midol one day, as I had never heard of them and had a number of the symptoms - due to IBS. They don't sell the good stuff for that here, they have in AUS.
My B.I.L said I should ask the female pharmacist about them. Boy was that embarrassing. Even the teenager and her mom next to me started giggling.

IMO, getting DOL and DOJ involved is 'the right way' to tackle this discrimination problem.

I think your "tell" is how you continue to try to justify yourself. If your foulness is indeed only my problem, then there's nothing to add. You are at utter peace with your rejection, with prejudice, of most of the world. So why are you still talking? I certainly don't matter. Is it because I'm white? Picture me as brown. That will clear right up.
Nah, you want to win an argument. Bad news bears: your "argument" will never hold water with anyone who has any true integrity. Your central stance is a dead philosophy, never growing, never changing, rooted in hate and exclusion, borne of ignorance and bias and resentment, bearing rotten fruit. Your legacy is smallness and hate, nothing more.

I was asking as in, "somebody put me in a straightjacket because I'm freaking." Not because of the post itself. Awareness of my own breaking-through of as*hole in response to crazy. And hyperbolic/sarcastic, obv.
But I don't know about just bowing out, at the same time. There are upright humanoids declaring justified hate against enormous entire blameless groups. TOS you say? Basic decency?

And you with your pathetic bandwagon, coat-tailing the most feeble-minded yet vicious bully in school because you *wish* you could be so singularly hateful. Shame--less on your lazy hate and more on your slavish sorry routine. An opinion based on race would be as nonsensical as judging you for the deluded Bee Gees revival-style metallic Outfit of Sadness in your pic.
Somebody close this thread before I lose it. More.

I can't even finish reading the thread before I respond to this. This is your "people are people" argument writ large into utter diabolical absurdity. You have completely lost the plot. You have constructed a laughable specious world view as a way to forgive your own hate, and it is the most cowardly, hubris-ridden, intellectually and soulfully bankrupt thing I've heard in memory.

I'm anti-Paul, and there's nothing wrong with that.

are colonials in the egyptian army at all like colonels in other countries' armies?
and am i reading this correctly, that you had previously been planning with your brother to trick yr husband into thinking you had been kidnapped at an airport? for **'s sake, why? and how would such a thing reveal anyone's "true intentions"? that sounds like something a mentally unstable 7th grader with major insecurity issues would come up with, but it's really hard to reconcile the idea of a 26 yr old woman with 4 children concocting something like that. but that's just me...

Get well Jimmy.

Well this is all very convenient for me and the midget-powered light rail system I'm developing. You're out of your element Donnie.

People get offended when Americans think that Middle Easterners are dirty because of the way they clean themselves and then turn around and insult Americans in the same way. Seems a bit hypocritical to me.

No, Europe is not tired of its 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, etc etc etc generation immigrant populations. Some very small right wing factions have ALWAYS hated ALL the immigrant populations that look funny unless of course the immigrants who look funny pretend they don't exist and do all the crappy jobs for nothing. These small right wing factions get a small amount of traction in the greater population when the economy is in the toilet and these right wing factions (who do have teency Nationalist political parties) need a scapegoat of blame and electoral promise of nirvana by means of a magic sleight of hand and promises of making all the pesky funny looking immigrants disappear (even the ones who are n'th generation) AND still do the crappy jobs for nothing. Amazingly, even in Europe there are still flag waving 'ra ra ra' types - they are just not part of the mainstream political system. Proportional representation allows these extreme Nationalist parties a small political voice during these periods of economic difficulty (actually, even in non proportional representation parliaments this can happen - see notes on NI politicians and political influence during small majority/hung parliament situations). When these nationalist influences dominate the political scene what you get is an approximation of National Socialism - which should more properly have always been termed Nationalist Fascism.

are you freaking kidding me? this is absurd to the nth level.

Just because you guys make sure to set up your important "points" for plausible deniability doesn't mean the motivation is invisible to people who aren't in a coma.
Obama is middle of the road. He is waaaay too far to the right for most "Liberals." He's pretty much followed W's lead on all things hawky, or done him one "better." There's not any legitimate support for the notion that he's hellbent on turning you all into helpless cogs in a big scary commie machine, or whatever the fantasy is.
The uproar since Obama's election is irrational, frightening, and utterly out of proportion to Obama's actual deeds. The real source of the massive histrionic overreaction is obvious and sad.
And I wouldn't care if you all spent the rest of your lives snarling impotently about imaginary crimes, except that you are contributing from your basement fortresses to the fearmongering and the hate that is ramping up to obscene, shameful levels and successfully creating an atmosphere of violence, xenophobia, and racism.
It's the easiest thing in the world to pretend all that hate and intolerance has nothing to do with you. But that's a lie.
Things have gotten too real for this sh*t. Too dangerous. It was never okay, but it has become absolutely indefensible to gleefully lie, scorn, and demonize and then plead ignorance when people get hurt. Lazily hateful and sick.

As if that weren't the insinuation of the OP.

Well if you're going to pull out the big-gun non sequitur retorts, I am clearly outmatched. Warn me next time! Mommy!!!!!

i bet harsh ate breakfast or lunch today, maybe even both. but i doubt he would call himself out as being wrong for eating breakfast or lunch because 24,000 people die every day of hunger.

i hereby stomp all over this anthill and do so in the name of Gerald! Now thusly all shall blame Geralds of the werld!

True enough, but when it comes to American citizens that practice the muslim religion, why on earth should that be relevant? Muslims in the US are not responsible for disproportionately large volumes of violence, in fact it's probably the reverse so seeing them as dangerous or provocative is persecution.

Awesome that on VJ hating an entire population of people for the actions of some gets multiple +1's.

You will undoubtedly 'address' them, but you will do so in an academic manner using your theoretical knowledge of Islam. What I don't think you can adequately address (on the topics of Ayodhya and Mathura) are the cultural factors in play that go into how Hindu and Muslims on the ground (not in theory, but in real life) interact.
Frankly, I'm not sure that the theology even matters. What matters is how people - Muslim and otherwise - actually conduct themselves.