Comments on: “Death has become an industry… we want death as much as you desire life” http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/01/04/death-has-become-an-industry-we-want-death-as-much-as-you-desire-life/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:25:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: elixelx http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/01/04/death-has-become-an-industry-we-want-death-as-much-as-you-desire-life/comment-page-1/#comment-111184 elixelx Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:57:09 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=18665#comment-111184 Any: are those the only choices: Joker or Fool? How about Po-Faced Puritan or Illiterate? Any: are those the only choices: Joker or Fool?

How about Po-Faced Puritan or Illiterate?

]]> By: Any http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/01/04/death-has-become-an-industry-we-want-death-as-much-as-you-desire-life/comment-page-1/#comment-111092 Any Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:24:10 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=18665#comment-111092 elixelx I can't decide whether you are joking or a complete fool. In any case, you are an apologist for a vile and genocidal death-cult masquerading as a religion. I wonder if you'd be so glib if it was your family living under threat of being hit by randomly-fired mortars and rockets. elixelx
I can’t decide whether you are joking or a complete fool. In any case, you are an apologist for a vile and genocidal death-cult masquerading as a religion. I wonder if you’d be so glib if it was your family living under threat of being hit by randomly-fired mortars and rockets.

]]> By: elixelx http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/01/04/death-has-become-an-industry-we-want-death-as-much-as-you-desire-life/comment-page-1/#comment-111085 elixelx Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:26:49 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=18665#comment-111085 Just because he is saying it in public, stridently, and would be prepared to repeat it, doesn't mean he actually believes it or that it's true! My Iranian friend Ali told me that we should not believe the Ahmadinejad circumlocution "Death to Israel" or "Death to America" because this is a common way of expressing displeasure in Iran. For example, if you are stuck in traffic you might say "Death to Traffic!"; or indeed if you chip a tooth on a small stone in your rice (something that Iranian shopkeepers regularly add!) You might say "Death to Stones" or even "Death to Rice" (not the same word in Iranian as the Condi's) or even "Death to Teeth". The important thing is that the element being wished dead must never be something microcosmic and particular, but a macroscopic class of objects that fully justifies and deserves your curse! If you want to know how to say it in the original, the expression is "It-Farc", so you would say "It-Farc Congress" or "It-Farc New York Times" (although this latter rather violates the principle of all-inclusiveness; saying "It-Farc MSM" is probably more purist!) So you see we shouldn't worry too much about these blowhards, and should probably reply to their dire threats by saying "It-Farc hot-air Balloons" Just because he is saying it in public, stridently, and would be prepared to repeat it, doesn’t mean he actually believes it or that it’s true!

My Iranian friend Ali told me that we should not believe the Ahmadinejad circumlocution “Death to Israel” or “Death to America” because this is a common way of expressing displeasure in Iran.

For example, if you are stuck in traffic you might say “Death to Traffic!”; or indeed if you chip a tooth on a small stone in your rice (something that Iranian shopkeepers regularly add!) You might say “Death to Stones” or even “Death to Rice” (not the same word in Iranian as the Condi’s) or even “Death to Teeth”.

The important thing is that the element being wished dead must never be something microcosmic and particular, but a macroscopic class of objects that fully justifies and deserves your curse!

If you want to know how to say it in the original, the expression is “It-Farc”, so you would say “It-Farc Congress” or “It-Farc New York Times” (although this latter rather violates the principle of all-inclusiveness; saying “It-Farc MSM” is probably more purist!)

So you see we shouldn’t worry too much about these blowhards, and should probably reply to their dire threats by saying “It-Farc hot-air Balloons”

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