ScottSA

And you should know, being the smart, educated and well read guy that you are. Why, I had almost forgotten the US bestrides the world like a behemoth existed before it trumped up 911. And I see what you mean about its irrelevance too...why, the USD is just a pretend pillar of international finance...pluck it out of the world system and I'm sure the global economy would fall flat on its arse no one would notice.

I suppose I shall relieve you of your ignorance in this one matter. You should look up a man by the name of Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan, also known as Geber. Well hot damn, there actually is something that a Musselman contributed. Unfortunately it has nothing to do with Islam, and it rather appears that he did it in spite of Islam, since Islam killed his father and imprisoned him for a good chunk of his life. Not to mention the fact that the only reason his discoveries actually went anywhere is because the christian west picked it up and developed it. But nice try.

No, if it had been a Mohammed doll, there would have been waves of cars burning across Europe. Lets not forget that Musselmen don't care much for cartoons, and one can only imagine what they'd do if faced with the ratcheted up blasphemy of action figures. But it's a great marketing ploy for some clever marketer who doesn't mind going into hiding for the rest of his life on pain of fatwa. I mean, a Mohammed doll would have to be anatomically correct so it could be Koranically correct and rape female dolls, and it would need have various accessories, like a sword for beheading Jews, and a sharp rock for stoning women, and maybe even an explosive vest for Islam's entry into the 21st century, but hey, that's just more profit for the poor sod who dares to do it.

There...do we feel better now that we've kicked a couple Christians?

No doubt you are quite a bit cleverer than I am, but tell me, how does the quality of your previous education and the number of books you have read vary according to good and bad days? And how can you be 100% confident of anything when even fixed numbers can vary according to mood? Is this a new form of relativism that takes extant reality and hinges it to mood? I notice however that your insistence on there being one race seems to go out the window when there's a chance to put the boots to caucasians...are you 100% sure about race too? "I notice however that your insistence on there being one race seems to go out the window when there's a chance to put the boots to caucasians...are you 100% sure about race too?" truly scottsa, I haven't got an inkling to what you are referring to wrt this statement. That's unfortunate coming from someone as clever, well read, and educated as you. You seem, while machinegunning your posts with random commas, to have become a tad confused as to exactly what it is you are 100% sure about. To wit: You say: And in the very next breath, you say: Now if there is no such things as race, why are you, in the same post as you deny it, affirming the existence of race and of oppression by one to another? If you're right in the first assertion and race doesn't exist, then you're clearly wrong in the second assertion, and if you're right in the second assertion then you can't be right in the first. And what does "wrt" mean?

No doubt you are quite a bit cleverer than I am, but tell me, how does the quality of your previous education and the number of books you have read vary according to good and bad days? And how can you be 100% confident of anything when even fixed numbers can vary according to mood? Is this a new form of relativism that takes extant reality and hinges it to mood? I notice however that your insistence on there being one race seems to go out the window when there's a chance to put the boots to caucasians...are you 100% sure about race too?

Apparently it contributed Marge Simpson as well. http://zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archi..._fatima_ali.jpg

But your faith also teaches that there is a place afterwards.Barely, and with zero emphasis. (Actually, we believe that if we slaughter enough people we get the sexual services ono an unlimited supply of attractive virgin women). Aha! I knew you guys were up to something!

No doubt you'll be able to supply numerous wonderful things Islam has given us.In the construction business, they specialize in the demolition phase of the project. The commercial advantage is that they will demolish a structure with the people inside. Excellent boon to society. The trouble is that all that asbestos in the air afterwards is troublesome for any of the Ummah who might be nearby hatching plots planning new and wonderful Islamic inventions to bring us. Rumor has it that Mohammed developed the first space program, firing himself into space on the back of a white horse in the miraj. Rumor fails to tell us under what motive power, although we can assume his horse Buraq was well stocked with oats, leading Nasa scientists to surmise that gastrointestinal methane was probably involved.

I can't believe the degree of resistance there is to the blatantly obvious. It's just beyond weird. Entire organizations are built on the concept of race...careers are built on it...government policies and entire government departments are built on administering funds based on "treaty rights" built on the concept of race, and the very same people denying that it exists now are the same people who are first in line to claim the "white man" is to blame for every evil in the world when they get a chance. What utter hypocrisy and nonsense. Are you in favor of abolishing preferential hiring practices for "visible minorities" on the basis that science says they are invisible and not minorities? What about the reservation system, and wergeld to Indians? Abolish Martin Luther King day in the states because the only difference between a Scandinavian Grandma and Malcolm X is that one of them wears sunglasses? Do you have any idea how insane it is to pretend that race doesn't exist?

My faith teaches that what is important is what people do in life, not what "place" they go to after. But your faith also teaches that there is a place afterwards.

I remember many years ago when I was campaign manager of a Rhino Party candidate(for our US friends, the Rhino party...never mind, you'll figure it out in a minute...), one of our policies was to switch from driving on the right side to driving on the left, but to avoid culture shock we were going to start slowly, by switching only trucks and buses at first, and ending with ambulances and wheelchairs.

No doubt you'll be able to supply numerous wonderful things Islam has given us.

Which ones?And they gave us the root of the word "assassin". According to the Koran and the Sunnas, the Banu Nadir and Banu Quraiza...the two Jewish tribes who had originally settled Medina. I shouldn't say he killed them. In fact, according to the Koran, he only killed the men. The women he raped and enslaved, saving the most beautiful ones for himself. Way to go Mohammed!

I reckon everyone knows where I stand on that issue. Opening the immigration gates further will cause unconscionable problems, and the only other solution is to attempt to generate a babyboom. The way to do that is the question, and it will, as always, break down between the left wanting to create a state-sponsored infrastructure including things like "universal daycare," and the right wanting to decrease taxation and strengthen the traditional family. I reckon everyone knows where I stand on that one too...

Somehow I expect this will spark a great thunderous yammering of...dead silence...from the "we is jes' all the same" brigade.

Well, let's take a look at how poor Kuzzad is oppressed here. 5 minutes ago I got a warning to stop "belittling people", with a specific reference to a post in which I told kuzzad to "shutup." Why did I tell him to shutup? Well, because he said this to me in the previous post: "In a nutshell, it is necessary for people such as scottsa, to believe, this nonsense, so when the "THEMS" are being killed scottsa, can feel ok with that." So I am warned for telling Kuzzad to "shutup", although apparently it's just peachy for him to accuse me of plotting genocide. Go figure.

Since it wasnt in the form of a question you can be forgiven. But the intent was if what the U of Cambridge published is true, how do you explain your stand? Black is a race? Who knew? My "stand," if you're talking about there being a difference between races, is self-evident. I suggest you read the thread if you want not to look a fool. I and others have said time after time that it really doesn't matter if Cambridge University did a study that says there is no such thing as race, or that we all came from the same seed or that we're all one big happy mass of genetically nondescript folks. The fact is that in the here and now, in reality, everyone knows that races exist. Everyone is well aware that Indians are not Caucasians, Blacks are not Orientals, and that no one enslaved the Japanese or interned the Congolese. Cambridge can genetically trace humanity back to amino acids and protoplasm if it so wishes, but that doesn't change the rather obvious fact that there are different collective phenotypes between races abroad today. Nor does it change the fact that there is a great deal of hate toward caucasians, much of it sponsored and cultivated by self-hating caucasians themselves. Some of the folks who hate caucasians and have expressed a desire to see them disapear as a race are right here, right now, on this thread. That doesn't bode well for the future. It doesn't bode well for my daughter, or her daughter, the day she becomes a minority in this country. And yes, I care about that very deeply.

Yes, we're all one big happy race. There is absolutely no difference, and I can't imagine what the police are talking about when they say they are looking for a "caucasian male" or a "black female." What can they be thinking? Hey, that means we can toss out Indian reservations, because there is no difference between them and the "White man." Cool. That'll save a whack of tax dollars...

Oh I agree that the trace to Stephenson is quite believable. In fact I have no doubt that the guage originated with him. Whether it originated in his head as an arbitrary guage or from pre-existing cart tracks tracks, determined by carts with standardized wheelspans that predated him at the mine(s) he used, is an open question. Further, if cart wheel spans were standardized, then it would make sense that the tools and jigs used for them would be employed in his experimentation with tracks. I sincerely doubt it has anything to do with Roman "chariots," but tradition and technology often operate on a feedback loop, and it seems intuitively reasonable that there is a link, however vague, between Roman civilization and track guage.

Oh shutup. oh shutup????? my oh my! What exactly do you expect when you come out with sophomoric nonsense like that? And here's a hint: make sure you're smart enough to mock people; otherwise it just makes you look stupid. You ain't looking very smart right now... You don't seem to 'get' the rather obvious fact that you can try to hide race between all kinds of rocks, and conceptualize it away, and convince yourself that there is no such thing as race, but when you're all done playing emperor's clothes...there sits the fact of race, completely unchanged in spite of your allegedly mental gymnastics.

Oh shutup.

Wrong. Simply halting immigration across the board would work just fine. Then all this confusion amongst the left over what constitutes caucasian would be moot.

So is it your contention that the Islamic world has not contributed to the human experience, and has only provided grief, suicide bombers and oil? Absolutely not. It has also contributed female genital mutilation; 6th century legal systems; the African slave trade; lots of geometric designs; several attempted invasions of Europe; the destruction and enslavement of two Jewish tribes; the deification of rape, beheading, lying, Jew killing and caravan sacking; harems; the comprehensive subjugation of women; and the Taj Mahal, built by slaves. Probably a few other things too, but my gorge is rising, so that'll do for now.

I can't believe he got away with claiming that the current president "stole" two elections. Why wouldn't he be fired for that kind of irresponsible trutheresque claim?