It has happened again

[Swift Terror 0]

yeah, what she said...

 

 

At least we killed the fuck (Abdulaziz al-Moqrin) who was behind this. But I guess we'll hear protests about how he should've been sent to international court with a fine lawyer from NYU...

[justsoyouknow 0]

Dude, Marney gave me goosebumps.

[Swift Terror 0]

Both the NY Times and Wash. Post web sites do not even bother to mention this on their front page.

 

The lead stories at both sites deal with how we fucked up on 9/11 and how a civilian contractor is accused of beating up an Afghan detainee.

 

Yep, we're worse than our enemy...

[1234-5678 0]

I definitely agree with Marney, but I don't see it happening. Our country is completely pussified, and wouldn't stand for the loss of "innocent" lives if we bombed the fuck outta these jobbers.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

Both the NY Times and Wash. Post web sites do not even bother to mention this on their front page.

 

The lead stories at both sites deal with how we fucked up on 9/11 and how a civilian contractor is accused of beating up an Afghan detainee.

 

Yep, we're worse than our enemy...

I just checked both sites, and you're wrong there.

 

Top story on both sites.

[Swift Terror 0]

I wasn't lying. When I went there, there was no mention of the beheading. Obviously they have updated it when you got there--took them long enough, considering this broke around 2:30pm eastern time.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

On the WP site, they mentioned a 6:08 EST update, and a slightly later one for the Times.

 

And no offense to anybody, but you know the fact that Johnson was in an orange jumpsuit is going to get mentioned by somebody who is thinking of a conspiracy or whatever.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

Frankly, I'm so fucking sick of all this I could puke.

 

I want to see some of those hostages and some of their families showing more guts. Instead of the standard "He didn't do anything wrong, he loves Arabs and he has a deep and abiding respect for Islam, please send him home and we'll let you fuck our mother in the ass" bullshit, let's see someone say "Fuck you, you Arab towel-heads. Fuck you ALL. Go ahead and kill my dad. We're going to turn your entire fucking country into radioactive glass and piss on the smoking ruins of Mecca. You want a fucking war? You fucking got one." I want the hostages to look into the camera and say, "Tell them to go to hell," like hostages do in every Highlander episode ever broadcast, every melodramatic direct-to-Lifetime TV movie ever filmed, and every Harlequin romance ever published.

 

And I want our fucking government to live up to those expectations. Our armed forces are the clenched right hand of God Almighty. NOW LET'S USE THEM. I want to rain fire and lead on those motherfuckers until there's nothing left but brittle ashes. I want Americans to stop hiding their passports. I want our countrymen to be able to stand up and say "Civis Americanus sum," confident that the most powerful military ever to dominate the world will utterly exterminate not only any terrorists who dare to touch a hair on their heads, but also the terrorists' friends, their families, and their entire countries. Fuck compassion and fuck justice. The rules just went out the window my friend, and you undid the latch. We didn't start this but by God we'll finish it.

 

This is war. These are terrorists. We're looking into the face of evil. Take your "root causes" and shove them up your goddamned ass. You want a war? You got a FUCKING war.

So...which side are the extremeists again?

[Guest FrigidSoul]

Dude, Marney gave me goosebumps.

Her views on how to handle the middle east often give me a hard-on.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

I figured the guy was dead from the start anyway.

 

The government doesn't negotiate with terrorists. If they did, people would start getting abducted left, right and center.

 

AFAIC, working in the Iraq rebuilding is like working in a federal prison. You ought to have to sign a wavier that says if you get captured, the government can do nothing for you.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Dude, Marney gave me goosebumps.

Her views on how to handle the middle east often give me a hard-on.

Damnit, I should have been faster with my reply...

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

Yup. Let's kill everyone in the Middle East and let God sort them out.

 

I hear alot of KKK members, and those guys behind the Oklahoma city bombing are from The SOuth so we better nuke that place too...just to be safe.

 

And I don't like the looks of them Belgiums.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

And I don't like the looks of them Belgiums.

*gives you the award for The Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Belgium" in a Serious Screenplay*

 

Congratulations, it's very prestigious.

[justsoyouknow 0]

Not to quibble, but why would you give him an award for using the wrong word? Belgians, Dave. Belgians.

[Guest Anglesault]

Marney's rage issues rule.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

Not to quibble, but why would you give him an award for using the wrong word? Belgians, Dave. Belgians.

 

It's a reference to a book passage that was altered and expanded when they edited it to not offend American audiences:

 

Life, the Universe and Everything

 

Original UK phrasing (page 114):

 

      'The Most Gratuitous Use Of The Word "Fuck" In A Serious Screenplay. It's very prestigious.'

      'I see', said Arthur, 'yes, and what do you get for that?'

 

 

Has been filled out to become:

 

      "The Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Belgium" in a Serious Screenplay. It's very prestigious."

      "The most gratuitous use of which word?" asked Arthur, with a determined attempt to keep his brain in neutral.

      "Belgium," said the girl, "I hardly like to say it."

      "Belgium?" exclaimed Arthur.

      A drunken seven-toed sloth staggered past, gawked at the word and threw itself backward at a blurry-eyed pterodactyl, roaring with displeasure.

      "Are we talking," said Arthur, "about the very flat country, with all the EEC and the fog?"

      "What?" said the girl.

      "Belgium," said Arthur.

      "Raaaaaarrrchchchchch!" screeched the pterodactyl.

      "Grrruuuuuurrrghhhh," agreed the seven-toed sloth.

      "They must be thinking of Ostend Hoverport," muttered Arthur. He turned back to the girl.

      "Have you ever been to Belgium in fact?" he asked brightly and she nearly hit him.

      "I think," she said, restraining herself, "that you should restrict that sort of remark to something artistic."

      "You sound as if I just said something unspeakable rude."

      "You did."

      In today's modern Galaxy there is of course very little still held to be unspeakable. Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is seen as evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality.

      So, for instance, when in a recent national speech the Financial Minister of the Royal World Estate of Quarlvista actually dared to say that due to one thing and another and the fact that no one had made any food for a while and the king seemed to have died and most of the population had been on holiday now for over three years, the economy was now in what he called "one whole joojooflop situation," everyone was so pleased that he felt able to come out and say it that they quite failed to note that their entire five-thousand-year-old civilization had just collapsed overnight.

      But even though words like "joojooflop," "swut," and "turlingdrome" are now perfectly acceptable in common usage there is one word that is still beyond the pale. The concept it embodies is so revolting that the publication or broadcast of the word is utterly forbidden in all parts of the Galaxy except for use in Serious screenplays.

      There is also, or _was_, one planet where they didn't know what it meant, the stupid turlingdromes.

      "I see," said Arthur, who didn't, "so what do you get for using the name of a perfectly innocent if slightly dull European country gratuitously in a Serious Screenplay?"

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

Indeed.

[Firestarter 0]

So...which side are the extremeists again?

Shut your fucking yap, you fucking Canuck. I'm sick of you. I'm sick of you all. And I'm sick of all the killing and all the dying and I'm sick to death of all your apologetics. No more words. I'm so sick of words it's amazing I could even stand to read that one last simpering hypocritical sentence of yours with its requisite illiteracy. No more. It's over. No more talking and no more reading, no more writing and no more arguments. The time for arguments is over. They want to behave like rabid animals, fine. It's time to treat them like rabid animals. I won't apologise for it, I won't rationalise it, and I won't try to explain it any more. It's time to die. They brought it on themselves, and now may God have mercy on their souls. I'm done.

[Guest Anglesault]

I'm officially a Disciple of Marney.

[Art Sandusky 0]

... but which side are the extremists on?

[Downhome 0]

I'm officially a Disciple of Marney.

Amen.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

It's even cooler when she calls someone a demagogue.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

So...which side are the extremeists again?

Shut your fucking yap, you fucking Canuck. I'm sick of you. I'm sick of you all. And I'm sick of all the killing and all the dying and I'm sick to death of all your apologetics. No more words. I'm so sick of words it's amazing I could even stand to read that one last simpering hypocritical sentence of yours with its requisite illiteracy. No more. It's over. No more talking and no more reading, no more writing and no more arguments. The time for arguments is over. They want to behave like rabid animals, fine. It's time to treat them like rabid animals. I won't apologise for it, I won't rationalise it, and I won't try to explain it any more. It's time to die. They brought it on themselves, and now may God have mercy on their souls. I'm done.

Awesome. Well I wish you luck. I'm glad you decided to enlist and fight for your country. You're right the time for talk is over.

 

Good look Marney. I'm sure you'll do your country proud.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

so.. is there a reason why both Berg and Johnson were in orange jumpsuits?

 

just asking. Weird coincidence, or does it mean something?

[Guest Anglesault]

I'm officially a Disciple of Marney.

Amen.

You're in charge of a cool nickname and merchandise. I'll handle recruiting.

 

... but which side are the extremists on?

 

Maybe this is the way we have to be. Fight fire with fire. Fighting fire with kittens and rainbows just gets us burned.

[2GOLD 0]

I'm officially a Disciple of Marney.

Amen.

 

After that...I concur.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

m sick to death of all your apologetics.

 

Apologetics? I'm all for killing the people who are guilty of a crime. But when you start talking about exterminating people, etc. then you can count me out.

 

For christ's sake. You sound EXACTLY like one of the terrorists.

[tommytomlin 0]

Why is everyone in this thread talking about how to deal with terrorism like their opinion actually matters?

 

Is Marney going to borrow an assault rifle from her Pentagon chums, fly to Saudi Arabia and pop some terrorist skulls, or are we all just going to sit behind our computer desks and talk tough?

[Guest MikeSC]

Americans who aren't soldiers just need to stay the hell out of the Middle East right now. Its as simple as that.

FS, one problem --- it's American and British contractors who basically RUN Arabia's oil industry. Take away the British and Americans and Arabian oil stops flowing, the country makes NO money, and the people are living in outright misery.

-=Mike

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

I just want to make it clear that I consider what these terrorists are doing to be awful. And I want them punished fully. I just do not support any action that would bring more harm to the innocents that ARE in the Middle East.