The Rampant, Irresponsible Political Thread

[manwithnoname]

I feel bad for the young students and idealists there, but they've had every chance to rebel.

Well, rebellion is usually met with an armed attack, which results in lots of blood and dying. Self-preservation, I can understand.

In America's Civil Rights Movement many people died just to get the right to vote.

My local newspaper reported that Oregon's primary election turnout was about 38%. I find this a slap in the face of voting activists & US military, past and present. Many have sacrificed their lives for the right to vote, and now too many Americans take this for granted.

Voting is a privilege.

[AaronB]

...And in other news, the White Sox beat the Cubs, Major League pitchers still refuse to throw balls for Barry to hit , and later tonight ten 7 foot tall men will bounce a ball up and down a hardwood floor and attempt to put it through a net.

Be bored. Be amazed. Be plastered.

Your JMSNews sportsbreak...

And don't forget that the Pirates lost (again)

[manwithnoname]

Sorry, I've tried but baseball is not a sport I find interesting. I have nothing against the sport; it's really boring to me.

[Dr Maturin]

Baseball is a sport for the thinking man. It's chess on dirt and grass.

[manwithnoname]

Well, I do like chest (women's). LOL.

[Dr Maturin]

I'm an assman.

[AaronB]

I'm an assman.

I bet you use that for your enterance music

[Karachi Vyce]

Baseball is a sport for the thinking man. It's chess on dirt and grass.

Bullshit. If you had said this about football, than perhaps I would agree with you. But not baseball.

[Dr Maturin]

Ugh, football.

[Dr Maturin]

I bet you use that for your enterance music

You mean when I'm entering asses?

[frulad]

What a surprise, look what the Muslims in Iran are up to now.

*snip*

Do you have other sources for this story? I tried Gooigle News with the parameters "Iran Catholics" and couldn't find anything from the last couple of weeks. Even though Catholics only make up about .1% of the Iranian population, I'm sure a story like this would have gotten bigger play...

[AaronB]

You mean when I'm entering asses?

No. using the old Billy Gunn a/k/a Mr. Ass music he used to use.

[Der Mike]

For anybody who DARES to try and paint some moral equivalence between Israel's actions and Palestine's actions, read this story:

Qassam hits Sderot school

2 rockets land in southern town area Sunday morning, one Qassam falls in empty classroom. Police, sappers arrive at place, some parents take children home. 'Rocket appeared intact, probably didn't explode,' student tells Ynet
Hanan Greenberg

Two Qassam rockets landed Sunday morning in the western Negev. One rocket landed near Gevim Junction south of Sderot, and two women suffered shock as a result. Another Qassam landed inside a classroom at the "Hanativ Hayeshivati" religious school in the southern town.

Luckily, at the time of the rocket's landing all students were at the school's synagogue for prayer service. The classroom and an adjacent toilet sustained damage.

Large police forces and sappers have arrived at the place shortly after the Qassam hit the school, as well as many parents who came to pick up their children and take them home.

Qassam hits school (Photo: Amir Cohen)

One of the students told Ynet: "We were at service and heard a shrieking sound but not an explosion. Panic broke out at the prayer hall, and we immediately ran back to the classroom. We saw the rocket inside the classroom, and it appeared almost intact. It seems it did not explode."

"Now there's a lot of confusion here. The principle asked us to gather at a protected area, and some of the parents have already taken their kids home," he said.

Niv Romemi, an 11th grade student, was standing with six other students near the door of the classroom in which the rocket fell.

"We finished praying and were waiting next to the door for the teacher to open the classroom, and then we suddenly heard a boom and
the fall. There was a shock wave, but there was no explosion. We panicked, and I am still in shock from what happened here. We heard the Red Alert system, but we have gotten used to hear it, so we didnÆt go anywhere, although there are concrete structures in the yard which we are supposed to go to. Now we are just standing here and everyone is in shock," he recounted.

"Tomorrow we are supposed to have a matriculation exam in English, and there are other students who have exams today and I donÆt know how we will manage after what happened here to undergo the exams at the school when you are always afraid that another rocket might fall on you," he added.

'My son called me in panic'

Many parents arrived at the school at around 9 a.m. and spoke to the school management. The parents' committee chairman, Sophie Ben Shushan, held a harsh battle in the past year to fortify the school, and the studies at the school have even been put on a strike several times as part of the battle.

"We are all standing here and just trembling. My son called my in panic and told me, 'mother, a Qassam fell in the classroom, get here immediately.' I ran to the school, and what we were afraid of had happened. It was a miracle that the students stayed at the praying room at the time and not in the classroom. I donÆt want to think what might have happened, God forbid, if the rocket had fallen in the classroom when the students were there," she said.

Ben Shushan added: "We are now deliberating whether to take students from here to the home of our defense minister, who is also a Sderot resident, or maybe to the office of the mayor which is fortified. We held a harsh battle to fortify the school, and when the budgets already arrived they started deliberating with contractors, etc, and this whole issue is stuck."

"It seems that only when a disaster happens here and someone is killed, someone will wake up. We call on all the officials to wake up and immediately fortify all the education institutions in Sderot and in this school," she stated.

The Home Front Command has so far received NIS 158 million (about USD 35 million) out of a total sum of NIS 219 million (about USD 49 million) destined for fortifying the Gaza vicinity communities.

The IDF is currently mapping the institutions destined for fortifying, including reinforced rooms and different operations related to the issue, and is transferring it to the local councils which are issuing tenders for private contractors. The last sum, of NIS 43 million (about USD 10 million), was transferred in April and was aimed at fortifying institutions for preschoolers.

"There is no end to fortification," an IDF official said Sunday morning. "We can block any structure with concrete from all directions, but it's not realistic economically and practically. The threat is developing, today a Qassam, tomorrow a Grad, and the day after tomorrow is could be a threat that the fortification will not be good enough for."

"The fortification should provide a reasonable answer. We cannot fortify any structure, and this is what we do as part of the budget we have," added.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...253174,00.html

The subhumans who run Palestine TARGETED a school. This was no accident --- this was a DIRECT TARGETING OF CHILDREN. That the bomb didn't detonate does not excuse what they did.

Israel bends over backwards to try and avoid civilian casualties amongst Palestinians. Palestine AIMS BOMBS AT SCHOOL CHILDREN.

So, please, tell me how Palestine is the "victim" in anything over there. Them directly targeting civilians is not exactly rare.

This story is just exceptionally heinous. Easily the most evil story I've read in a few years.
-=Mike

[frulad]

The Jerusalem Post is reporting that Islamic Jihad is claiming responsibility. I thought they were based in Syria?

[David Panzer]

The most evil story I read was an article about "Basic Instinct 2" being filmed. This was last year.