Actually there are two types that look like humans: Homo sapiens, the reasoning man, and Australopithecus rupertus™, former Homo sapiens who have devolved as a result of exposure to News Corp.

Williams supported Imus Firing, Censoring of Rap Music

I have yet to meet a GOP or GOP supporter that wasn’t also a complete hypocrite. Must be in their oath or something. 😉 😛

Hmmm. I haven’t posted any of my vast store of quotations for awhile. 😉 This is as good a place as any. 😛 Possibly not relevant to the topic at hand… but relevant to the USA this century (so far anyway). 😉

Let’s see now… (I’m not sure I remember these verbatim — School was long ago! But we have Google!)

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.
— Ali ibn Abi-Talib (Well, that one is applicable to a certain commenter here at least) 😉 😛

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and loose both.
— Benjamin Franklin

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
— Dorn Helder Camara

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war while defeated worriors go to war first and then seek to win.
— Sun-Tsu (That’s certainly been proved true time and again).

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed me with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
— Galileo Galilei (I have come to suspect that there are actually two homo sapiens species coexisting. The ones who have and use sense, reason and intellect, and the others.) 🙂

No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, or in any way destroyed, except by the lawful judgment of his peers.
— The Magna Carta

I have gained this by philosophy. That I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
— Aristotle

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
— Thoma Jefferson

Paople of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public.
— Adam Smith

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
— Henry Ford (Obviously, today industrialists have decided they can do away with the first and last parts of that.)

A designer knows when he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupry

And lastly, one that I didn’t learn at school (and would not have known if not for the internet)! 😉 😀

Corporation, h. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual reponsibility.
— Ambrose Bierce

A Europol report on terrorist attacks in Europe in 2009 says that out of hundreds of terrorist attacks in Europe in 2009, most were the work of ethnic separatists. About 40 were carried out by members of the extreme left. A handful by the European far right.

One terrorist attack was carried out in 2009 in all Europe by persons of Muslim heritage (I do not say ‘by a Muslim’ because terrorism is forbidden in Islamic law).

That is right. Out of hundreds. Exactly one.

After all that nonsense spewed on the internet and Fox Cable News about the danger of Muslims to Europe, and all the ethnic profiling and other discrimination against Muslims, it turns out that not only is their religion not dangerous, even the persons who depart from it into extremism and terrorism are tiny in number. Now it would not be right to profile or generalize about Basques, the Real IRA, etc., either. But even by the lights of the bigoted, it would be a waste of time to obsess about Muslims on this evidence.

As for the European far left and far right, those it is all right to generalize about and to conclude that they are, like, very dangerous. Two words: Stalin and Hitler. Extremists of Muslim heritage have killed a few thousands of people over the past century. European political extremists have killed tens of millions.

This sort of datum is why National Public Radio was right to fire commentator Juan Williams for saying he gets nervous when he sees people in Muslim garb on an airplane.

Link to the post and the PDF here:
On Juan Williams’ Firing for Islamophobia and how Most European Terrorism is by European Separatists

This of course assumes you know how to read English. You have proven you have zero comprehension. However, perhaps a fact or two may seep past your rampant stupidity and ignorant phobia. We do indeed live in hope (well, people like you do, at any rate)! 😈

BTW… Hitler was a God-fearing Christian, backed by the Church (until they did as they usually do, left the sinking ship when it got too hot for them)!

What a moron. *shaking head*

“can’t wrap their little heads around the concept” — also known as willful ignorance or deliberately being obtuse (see Internet troll). I rest my case.

Besides, the vast majority of workers in the U.S. are “employed at will” and can be fired without cause at any time. Why the hell should Juan Williams be such a special flower?

What childishness, David. Like so many conservatives, you don’t lack intelligence so much as you lack maturity. Wait, no… as I read what you wrote, I have to wonder about the intelligence as well…

When the neocons took control of the top level at the CIA, reality was lost. Nixon sort of understood about China, but the CIA kept pushing the wrong buttons and drawing the wrong conclusions. The people at the bottom knew what was going on, but you couldn’t get the truth through the filter at the top.

Khrushchev had to be removed because he was a “true believer” in the inevitability of a Communist triumph, and didn’t have the skill to deal with the facts on the ground.

There were deals cut that prevented actions by surrogates. like East Germany, from creating major problems, but most of that was very low level and generally handed off to the UK for the actual contacts. The CIA overall was too obviously out of place in Europe to be useful. At conferences you received no points for the CIA in the “Spot the Spy” game, it just wasn’t much of a challenge.

A couple lead pipes to the kneecaps would give him reason to complain. There is something to be said for the *old ways*! 😈

I enjoyed dealing with the Soviets (most of them anyway, there were exceptions. They had their own breed of weirdo * wing-nuts* too). I was once involved (in a minor capacity) in helping one of the sane Soviet’s deal with a troublesome Soviet extremist. Worked out very good for us all. 😉 Was very handy to have a senior official *owe us one*. Of course, it was far easier and simpler in many ways for us to deal with the Soviet’s during the 70’s & 80’s than the USA. We were on the other side of the World for a start, and in spite of Vietnam, hadn’t yet become a major US southern hemisphere base (that began late 80’s, about the time I decided to get out. Was getting too hard to tell who the crazies were.) The Soviet’s I’d known got out too, and opened Restaurants and Club’s around. 😆 Made a *killing*! I’d certainly never said they were stupid. 😀 😉 The Soviets had a strong presence here because we both had a common interest. China. Worked out well for us both! 🙂 The USA of course loved to think they were here to get US secrets, and whined constantly that we didn’t understand that the Soviet’s were *The Enemy!* In all truth and honesty, the USA was rarely even mentioned during my time in Canberra (except in terms like: “I wish those bloody yanks would piss off and stop making everything so bloody hard!”. 😉 Sorry to burst the US ego bubble… but, it wasn’t all about the USA! 😆 I dunno why exactly… but IMHO, the USA works REALLY hard to make themselves a target! *shrug*

I’ve made the point before that I would have been worthless as a Soviet analyst if I hated the Soviets. My job was to understand them, not judge them. My bosses understood my point, although a number of non-analysts thought it meant I was a pinko. Iraq is a prime example of what happens when analysis is colored by personal feelings, and the same thing is part of the perception of Iran.