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1. about 9 years ago on Ted Rall

   The French President was perfectly aware of the risk not to him, of course, but to the French people of sending bombers to Syria. Everyone in the intelligence community had been trying to prepare for retaliation attacks, even if they fully knew they were incapable of preventing them.

   But what is that compared to the benefits of getting a few points up in his polls, that went abysmal quickly after he had taken office.

   Even Reagan and Bush Sr. were smarter: They only send troops to Grenada and Panama.

   Polls should indeed be evaluated in terms of massacred aliens, with extra points for specific colours and religions.

2. almost 11 years ago on Ted Rall

   Irony is dead, that’s for sure.

   And I was poking fun at all of you who still believe the official line on 9/11.

   Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan

3. almost 11 years ago on Ted Rall

   According to testimony by Susan Ginsberg, a staff member of the National Commission on Terrorist attacks upon the United States, in the January 26, 2004 Public Hearing:

   “Four of the hijackers’ passports have survived in whole or in part. Two were recovered from the crash site of United Airlines flight 93 in Pennsylvania. These are the passports of Ziad Jarrah and Saeed al Ghamdi. One belonged to a hijacker on American Airlines flight 11. This is the passport of Satam al Suqami. A passerby picked it up and gave it to a NYPD detective shortly before the World Trade Center towers collapsed. A fourth passport was recovered from luggage that did not make it from a Portland flight to Boston on to the connecting flight which was American Airlines flight 11. This is the passport of Abdul Aziz al Omari.”“In addition to these four, some digital copies of the hijackers passports were recovered in post-9/11 operations. Two of the passports that have survived, those of Satam al Suqami and Abdul Aziz al Omari, were clearly doctored. To avoid getting into classified detail, we will just state that these were manipulated in a fraudulent manner in ways that have been associated with al Qaeda.”

   Allah offers great protection too!

   Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. — Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)

4. almost 13 years ago on Ted Rall

   Abortion should be free

   and

   MANDATORY!

5. almost 13 years ago on Ted Rall

   @walruscarver2000Puppets do. There is an Uncle Tom this time.And each time they promise change. And hope too…

6. almost 13 years ago on Ted Rall

   1968 – Vietnam War: American soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Sơn Mỹ village in the Sơn Tịnh district of South Vietnam.The more it changes, ….

7. over 13 years ago on Ted Rall

   Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan

8. over 13 years ago on Ted Rall

   I’m glad to know that 47% of yanks & most big corps are refusing to support the wars efforts

9. almost 14 years ago on Ted Rall

   ^ I’m afraid not, Mister. The only assumption I made was that Rall knew a bit more about Islam than his uncultivated compatriots. And I ended wondering if he knew enough as to hide some meaning in the cartoon.

10. almost 14 years ago on Ted Rall

    Indeed, you’re very right, since:

    Believing in angels is one of the six Articles of Faith in Islam; The Qur’an mentions that angels have qualities that may be typified by the word “wings”; Angels have sometimes two or three or four (pairs)…, and the Prophet had seen Gabriel having 600 wings…, and Archangels (namely Gabriel and Michael) are described as having thousands of wings…, and Gabriel’s wings were said to span from the Eastern to the Western horizon…, etc… I was just mentioning their representation in artworks was frowned upon.