Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

What happened to the guy who reportedly turned himself in yesterday?

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

there were 2 shooters and a look out at charlie. last night the look out supposedly turned himself in. the guy who hit the Kosher deli was a fourth person, no?

Re: Turn on the radio, the static hurts my ears.
 

Tell me about it. Nope, it wasn't mainstream radio stuff - at least for the 1980/81 Podunkville market. The Police got there with Ghost in the Machine or maybe Synchronicity, but I don't think I ever heard Elvis on the radio until I made it off to college, where the hopheads who programmed the student-run station really liked Armed Forces.

Re: Turn on the radio, the static hurts my ears.
 

what ever radio I was listening to when Roxanne was first played was not edgy, but I recall:

duh, duh duh, duh..... ROXANNE...

and Watching the Detectives was on rotation there. I mean shit, Elvis's whole SNL Radio Radio thingy had happened by 1980. Were you not aware of SNL? You'd have love gilda radner's hairdo.

Re: Turn on the radio, the static hurts my ears.
 

Weren't the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players all gone in 1980-81? That was the first Era of SNL Suckosity, IIRC. Besides, at that point I was working in a restaurant on Saturday nights, so wasn't watching even if Gilda was still on. (I was more of a fan of Jane Curtain's hair as a youth, though looking back at the old episodes now, I have concluded that Lorraine Newman would probably have been the most fun to hang out with). Gilda, though, then and now was the funniest.

But your point that I lived a sheltered musical life is accurate.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

nvm, the terrorists are fucked http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/09/tech...do-terrorists/

Re: Turn on the radio, the static hurts my ears.
 

Jesus? You're old.

24 and there's so much more.
 

This shocks you? I've been posting Prufrockian angst here since you were studying for your Mr. Belding versus Zach: Legal Issues Raised in "Saved By The Bell" 3rd year finals.

Re: Turn on the radio, the static hurts my ears.
 

My Aim is True pretty much changed my life.

Re: Turn on the radio, the static hurts my ears.
 

mid life crisis?

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

I thought the guy who turned himself had a strong alibi -- he was in school, according classmates -- so if so then the driver is still out there.

Eta: http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...r-mourad-hamyd

http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-da...g-mourad-hamyd

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

This post is almost completely useless. Stop wasting my time.

TM

I wish that I could stop you from talking when I hear the silly things that you say.
 

Next board motto! Thanks to both of you for the inspiration.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

2. The economic underpinnings of this can't be denied. Radical Islam is the direction for the directionless.

But this forces another question. Why is it Islam? Why not other religions? This leads to a problem with the fundamental structure of Islam. Unlike almost all others today, only Islam retains the proposition it is superior to, rather than merely apart from, the state. It is the only religion remaining politically involved in not only impacting policy, but in the demand it be directly involved in governing.

This works in Indonesia and Iran, where Islam and the state have found an uneasy detante. It does not work well in an extremely secularist society like France. Hence, when the disaffected look for an outlet that attacks the state around them which mires them in segregated poverty, it's inevitably Islam.

Islam needs to have a Second Vatican counsel in which it definitely rejects: (1) Jihad; and (2) Its directives that states must conform to Islam, and, that non-adherents be converted. Until it does so, its radical variants will remain magnets for angry losers like these Charlies Hebdo assassins.

Catholicism learned to play nice with the nation state structure. It took a while, but it got there. Judaism has always been largely cooperative, and Hinduism, despite being politically involved early on, has for centuries recognized the religion/state division. Islam can get there. But we need to start talking about it doing so on a more aggressive timetable. Its extended adolescence is getting a bit trying.

(Of course, we could all grow the fuck up and stop arguing about whose man in the sky is right, which would remove attractive nuisance ideologies like Radical Islam... But this is, sadly, asking too much of the average superstitious, frightened animal man remains.)

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

Thanks for your constructive feedback.

Here's the thing you need to deal with: don't snitch is a problem with everyone in the community who does not snitch. Extremist violence in the name of Islam (or in retaliation for blasphemy) is not a problem with the people who do not perpetrate the violence.

No matter how hard moderate Muslims do not perpetrate extremist violence, their actions don't stop it. All it takes for a community with a "no snitching" culture to fix is for responsible citizens to snitch.

These things are not meaningfully similar.