71 Replies to “Poll: Public Opinion Shifts Towards Gestapo”

  1. When you make an argument worth countering, sir, I may or I may not do so, depending on my mood. Nevertheless, it remains the case that you parachuted into this community claiming the high moral ground and then you proceeded to spray insults around. That should have tipped everyone off, sadly, too often it doesn’t. And you get off on that. We see it a lot in the psych ward. Yet it’s too late, you’re busted. We see that a lot too, in the vice squad.

  2. Highwayman, from one of the two(only) blog entries on your recently launched site:
    “I was in the bath, one day, when I said to myself… “Highway… you’ve got to give up this blogging shit!” But, I just can’t seem to quit. There are just too many people out there with the wrong idea of reality, and they need me!”
    You’ve babbled all day here. I have no response to any of it, but, one small question: do you by any chance wear a caped costume with red vinyl boots? It’s just this mental image that I have.
    Please. For the sake of all that is orderly, reasonable and sane in this universe get back to attending to your blog. The people that need you will find you in time. Go now. Don’t look back. We aren’t worthy.

  3. You’re throwing an awful lot of weight around, compadre… who made you the authority, here, or if you are some kind of authority, you’re abusing it in the sense that you’re making decisions for everyone else.
    I don’t know exactly what you want… I have provided quotes from famous persons, links… what is it you want? As for “parachuting” in here, my timing has nothing to do with this blog receiving any award. I have heard this blog promoted on a certain radio talk show, so I thought I’d check it out. Nothing nefarious, there.
    I was engaged in debate, and I was not the first to throw out insults… that was the privilege of one of your other commenters. I countered with all civility, I thought, because I can go toe to toe with the best of them, son, believe me. I prefer not to, though.
    If you’re trying to intimidate me with some hint that you’re a cop or other authority figure, save it, or run the risk of revealing how intolerant you and your fellow commenters portend not to be. I’ve done nothing wrong other than TRY to participate in an interactive forum.
    If the site owner requests that I leave, fine, I’ll go. But, no two-bit authority freak is going to tell me where I can go, what I can say, or when to go, savvy?
    Now, you deal with that, son.

  5. Penny:
    You joining the act, too?
    Forgive my sorry attempt at humorous writing on MY blog. I guess that’s not allowed in your universe.
    No, I don’t wear tights and boots… maybe I should, though.
    BTW, that blog is a new one… I started a new one, recently. I’ve had a few blogs, some were well established with a fair patronage. I’ve written under other handles, too. I had intended to quit blogging, because there isn’t much appreciation out there for esoteric knowledge. People seem to know it all, these days.
    Of course you’re worthy, dear. Don’t deride yourself!
    😉

  7. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: You have now seen the evidence clearly placed before you, and it is only you, dear readers, who can make the final judgement. Therefore, I rest my case. Besides, I’ve got less than an hour left to produce tonight’s Small Dead Animals Late Nite Radio show, so I’d better get down on it.

  8. With a casual resort to silly insults I see highway as someone with an inflated sense of self importance that is easily pricked when challenged.
    Your exchanges with ET showed some promise but your easy descent into ‘blog wars’ is immature. Make your case and defend it. Putdowns should at least be witty or entertaining and done with a light touch. Yours are just ham fisted.
    Vit has earned his keep around here. You’re a newbie. Come back when you have more self control. Then we’ll see if you can play with the big dogs.

  9. “…the constant repression of the Palestinian economy, the settlements, the border closings etc – all bring in yet more radicals to the fascist ideology.” – ET
    And where are these radicals mysteriously appearing from? Iran? Iraq? Syria? And aren’t they already part of the fascist ideology, otherwise known as Islam?
    And isn’t this what happened in Iraq, which you, ET, support as a correct action by George Bush?
    “…while Hamas was deliberately working in Gaza supplying the social services, jobs, medical care etc that Fatah was not supplying? Hmmm?”
    You mean the same Hamas that was using their fellow citizens, even children as human shields? The same Hamas that set up their rockets in residential apartment buildings, containing families? The same Hamas that stored their weapons in Mosques? That Hamas?
    That’s rich.
    You might also have read the headlines on the mock front page. “…an over-reaction,” “Jewish resistance shatters hopes for a peaceful final solution,” etc. Exactly the same as todays Liberal headlines.
    ………..
    Little wonder he calls himself ‘The Highwayman.’ Given how successfully he’s hijacked the thread.

  11. Aye, Irwin, still, it had the potential to become much worse if he hadn’t been busted. Sorry for all the commotion resulting from the take-down, folks, as y’all know, I only do so when the danger triggers my range safety officer’s sixth sense 😉

  12. The Warsaw uprising would never have happened if they’d had proper gun control.
    The advocates of gun control want it because it’ll be helfpul in crushing dissent when they seize power. But I think we need our guns, just in case the government gets out of hand, like taking 50% of our incomes in taxes or something.

  14. Just to note: In my previous post I put the word “satire” in braces before and after the first comment, with a slash before the word in the second instance, like it was a fake formatting request; the publishing software omitted them. No biggie, but I just want to make my intentions clear.

  15. “…the constant repression of the Palestinian economy, the settlements, the border closings etc – all bring in yet more radicals to the fascist ideology.” – ET
    When are the ETs of the world going to pass this wisdom on the Arabs?
    how about something like – the constant lobbing of kassam rockets, the constant vilification of Jews, the random stabbings in the Old City, the random shootings of people driving, the suicide bombers, etc etc, all bring out the IDF.
    The Arabs of Palestine have a state in Jordan (even if some people do not want to recognize that), and they could have had a second state when the two state solution was proposed in 1947 (you know, the one that Israel said yes to and the Arabs said no)

  16. You guys will be sure and tell me when those “big dogs” arrive, won’t you? So far, all I’ve heard are yapping pups!
    You need to spend a few years on American blogs… the tamest one of those make his place look pretty pale by comparison. That’s where I cut my blogging teeth.
    Anyway, I’m not here for a pissing contest… wouldn’t be much of one, anyway, but did any of you heroes even look at my first comment, before the first jackass jumped me? I doubt it. I’ll bet those images wouldn’t even register with you warmongers, either! Like that windbag, Gormley, whose big mouth led me to this place, there are bloodthirsty morons here that cream over dead and dying Palestinians, mostly civilians and kids.
    I know it’s easy for you people here to live with what’s going on over there, because it IS over there, and not in your back yards next to your two hybrids, boat, pool and deck, barbecue, and most of all YOUR youngsters! And with ol’ Big Mouth spouting off all week on the virtues of totalitarianism, you must feel pretty damned good about yourselves!
    I’ll bet those dead soldiers coming home in boxes from Afghanistan get the juices going for ya, too… right, Mr. Range Safety Officer?
    Good luck with the late night show… for bloodsucking vampires, I’m thinking?

  17. Hmmm, taking a look at some of the posts here, I really wonder if their’s even a remote chance for peace anywhere on the planet. Does anyone really believe that Israel was formed in 1948 so that the Jews that used to live there could return to their homeland. The folks that had to leave lived there for a very long time and had a sun tan that the Zionists who are the now the majority will not develope for generations. They are of the Jewish faith, but come from diverse places on the planet. The first colonialists in Palestine were descendents of an ancient civilization near the Caucuses between the Caspian and Baltic seas. Needless to mention they were Caucasion and they began forming farming communities in Palestine early in the 20th century. This was a political movement by people of the jewish faith to form colonies in Palestine and this was realised when Israel was formed in 1948.
    What does this have to do with anything? Well, for one, not many of the colonialists are Semetic. I suppose that what is going on here is somewhat comparable to what the US did to the American indians, but we didn’t use bombs and cannons on them after we stole their best land and water and penned them up in a reservation, even if they shot a few arrows toward those of us that got too close to the fence.

  18. the jews had better ramp up and be prepared to kill a hell of a lot more people because there are about 2 billion who would like to see them all dead. all the words about who, what, when etc will not change this.

  19. Vit. It’s called “Roadkill Diaries” so there has to be some truth in advertising. Don’t feel bad, there is always the G&M for the nowayman.

  20. Geezerpower,
    Another newbie, comes to give us all a history lesson.
    Wrong.
    In ’48 around 6 – 700,000 Arabs were displaced from Palestine by the Arab armies who had unilaterally declared war on Israel, rather than settle for a two state solution. At the same time 800,000 Jews were violently kicked out of the surrounding Arab countries, who settled in Israel. The difference is, the Arabs were allowed to come back and reclaim their possessions, while the Jews were not. Their lands and belongings were seized, the value of which equals hundreds of billions in todays money.
    And the whole situation is nothing like the indigenous Indian situation in the US.
    Muslim/Arab armies stole all of these lands from the indigenous non-Arab people, by violent force – mass-murder, rape, pillage and the destruction of irreplaceable historical property. Whole cultures were wiped out, never to be seen again, in the years during and after Mohammad (c.700 AD)
    Please don’t come here and comment for the first time without having at least somewhat of an idea of history and what the ongoing conversation is about on this blog. It’s insulting.

  21. A little more history from a newbie …G:
    LookLex / Encyclopaedia, an expansion of Encyclopaedia of the Orient:
    The Ashkenazi communities were from the start of organized like small cities inside a Christian city. The Jews had their own laws, they had social contact only with each other, and they organized and armed themselves in order to protect their communities against villains and thieves.
    In Poland the Jews often formed shtetls, small towns where they represented the majority of the inhabitants.
    Already from the 11th century did the Ashkenazi scholars start to develop material that is still in use in Judaism today, like the Mahzor, a work that contained prayers by poets of Germany and France.
    For the Ashkenazi Jews the studies of Hebrew, the Torah and the Talmud was more than just a way of understanding their religion, it was also a way of protecting themselves against the influence of the societies around them.
    Ashkenazim and Sephardim came to develop different prayer liturgies, Torah services, Hebrew pronunciation and ways of life. The rituals of the Ashkenazi were of the Palestinian traditions. Ashkenazi and Sephardi tunes for both prayers and Torah reading are different. An Ashkenazi Torah lies flat while being read, while a Sephardi Torah stands up.
    In order to decide upon Jewish law, there are different authorities. The Ashkenazim go by Rabbi Moses Isserles, who wrote a commentary on the Shulhan Arukh (by Rabbi Joseph Caro) citing Ashkenazi practice. There are differences in many aspects of Jewish law, from which laws women are exempt from to what food one is allowed to eat on Pesach.
    But today, many of the distinctions between Ashkenazim and Sephardim have disappeared. In Israel as well as in other countries like USA, Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews live side by side, even if they generally have separate institutions.The language of the Ashkenazi Jews was Yiddish, a language close to German. In modern times, Yiddish is in danger of dying out.Today, about 10 million of the 13 million Jews in the world are Ashkenazi.

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