1 What a douche.

2

Breathing air is driving people to insanity!

3 When a murder occurs in India, it's a Hindu murder?

When a murder occurs in Japan, it's a Buddist murder?

The possibilities here are many!

4 Yea, and we see videos of Jews and Christians chopping off heads in the name of their respective religions.  What a boob.  Just another insane thought from an insane liberal.  And the Lunatic Left Hits Just Keep On Commin!

5

I hate the fact this mo-fo and I went to the same undergrad.

He's a blight.

6 Erg is Tavis Smiley?!?  The circle of douche is complete.

7

You better not be asking what my motives were, punks.

8 He's trying to have a "deep thought" moment. Sorry. Nope. Just no.

9 When a murder occurs in Japan, it's a Buddist murder?

It might also be a Shinto murder.

10 Hey, Tavis - you need to brush up on your Old Testament.

Uh, you know, specifically, Thou shalt not murder...

Jus'sayin's'all.

11 He's a loon.  He cites COLUMBINE as an example of Christians committing murder?  Columbine!?!

12
In before morgenholz asks if Smiley can stand on his hands.

13 Scuzzy Religion-baiting bottom feeder. Special place in hell, Smiley.

14 8 He's trying to have a "deep thought" moment.

More like a brain fart moment.  Pity he thought he was being "deep" with those inane comments.

15

Tavis Smiley is probably one of those who pipes up about Hitler being a Christian, and Timothy McVeigh. Neither of them committed their crimes to the greater glory of Christ, or because they were given a mandate by Christ, or Pope Whoever, or Billy Graham, to do so. Hitler even had his own cultish situation going on, it was described on "the occult history of the third reich."

This was a belief-system of arcane rituals and potent symbols, with the ancient swastika appropriated for the Nazi cause. By the time of the Third Reich, Hitler and the Nazis had evolved an entirely new faith, complete with holy book, venerated relics and a priestly elite in the form of Himmler's SS. It was a religion based on obedience, power, and the cult of the leader, with Hitler himself conceived in Messianic terms.

16


Those Amish and their drive-by Horse & Buggy shootings are really getting out of hand.

17

silly man, so this is what pbs does with their money.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting has received 15% to 20% of its annual operating revenue from Federal sources and 25% to 29% from State and local taxes.

18

I was shocked when I first saw this.  Hirsi Ali is a friggin hero and Travis is there trying to school her on what a dumb fuck she is because she does not get Christian(ist)s are evil.  Travis, you are the dumb fuck.  BTW, Columbine shooters weren't Christians, they targetted Christians. 

Other than John Brown trying to start a slave revolt in Virginia and a couple of crazied abortion clinic bombers (and Rudolph btw was an athiest) where are these violent Christians in America? 

Now I am just pissed.  Because my tax dollars help pay for this.  I would donate to PBS for the occasional Ken Burns special that I like, but stuff like this makes me say no. 

19 Let's see: murders in Utah-- Mormon murders.

Murders in parts of Pennsylvania and Indiana-- Amish murders.

Murders in the woods anywhere-- Gaia-worshipper murders.

Yep, the possibilities are indeed endless.

20 Who knows what this douchebag means.

21

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 required a "strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial nature". It also prohibited the federal government from interfering or controlling what is broadcast.

sigh

22 Mush-brained leftists desperately scrambling for moral equivalence say the darndest things!

23

Well, yeah. What else would they cling to their guns?

24

Reminds me of a comic I saw in San Francisco back in the '70s.

"You people out here are WEIRD!  I mean, you got people out here who commit murder for strange shit, like 'the moon was in Aquarius' and stuff.  Back home in New York, people only get murdered for good reasons... like ten cents."

As for the RoP and its respect for other religious traditions (of which I heard so much around the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day), I offer this tidbit:

At least 70 people were killed when Islamist militants armed with grenades and suicide vests stormed two mosques packed with worshippers from a minority sect in the Pakistani city of Lahore.

The gunmen struck in simultaneous attacks on Friday against the Ahmadi sect, which has long been subjected to violence and discrimination.

Police rapidly took control of one mosque in the Model Town area of the city. Meanwhile a stand-off developed at the second mosque in the heavily populated Garhi Shahu neighbourhood.

One attacker climbed on top of the minaret of the mosque, firing an assault rifle and throwing hand grenades. Outside, police traded bullets with the gunmen.

Three attackers blew themselves up as police entered the building to end the siege.

Shahbaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab province, appealed for calm "Our security forces will fight this menace till the end," he said. "Attacks on places of worship is barbarianism. It is a shame to cause bloodshed in mosques." Local media reported that the Punjabi wing of the Pakistan Taliban had claimed responsibility.

Lahore, a city of eight million near Pakistan's border with India, has been increasingly subject to Taliban and al-Qaeda attacks in a nationwide bombing campaign that has killed more than 3,300 people in the past three years.

Yesterday's attack is the bloodiest yet in Lahore. In March 45 people were killed in a series of simultaneous attacks.

Rahimullah Yusufzai, an expert on militant groups, said the Punjabi Taliban were capable of such an attack but that it marked a departure from their normal tactic of selecting security targets "This is one for their supporters rather than something that might win over public opinion," he said. "It shows their fundamentalists that they are against Shias, against Ahmadis, against minorities and it restates their hardline position." One man was arrested as police secured the Model Town mosque.

Officials said he was a Pashtun, from the ethnic group that straddles Pakistan and Afghanistan and is closely associated with the Taliban.

The Ahmadis have suffered years of state-sanctioned discrimination and occasional attacks by radical Sunni Muslims, but never on such a large scale.

They are reviled as heretics by mainstream Muslims for their belief that their founder was a saviour foretold by the Koran. Their belief contradicts a central tenet of Islam holds that Mohammed was the final prophet.

25

He kind of forgot that, eh?

I'm guessing not. He's just being technically accurate when he says Christians kill people every day. He thinks he's being smart.

Like a couple of years ago when NPR's listeners feigning outrage when they said the U.S. had invasion plans against Iran. Yes: Two years ago, the United States government had plans for the invasion of Iran. Actually, the U.S. has for a long time held invasion plans against every country in the world, and they're continually being updated. So NPR was, technically, correct.

Tavis Smiley is just manipulating people eager to be manipulated.

26

Murders in the woods anywhere-- Gaia-worshipper murders.

That might actually be true...gotta watch out for hidden drug fields.

27

O/T but important: China will not protect whoever was to blame for sinking a South Korean warship, the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has said.

Will China really turn its back on Li'l Kim?

 

28 Yep, the possibilities are indeed endless.

Posted by: PA Cat at May 28, 2010 06:18 PM (x1fQ/)

Murders in San Francisco and Manhattan: Progressive murders.

29

Report: Nearly 100% of murderers have seen a Subway commercial in the past 15 years!

30 Of course no one want to talk about the 100 Million murdered in the 20th century for Communism, or the millions of dead from Malaria in the developing world so Environmentalism could retain it's bureaucratic authority. 

How about those killings, Travis.

31 Read the transcript...this tool actually says that Columbine was a christianity-inspired shooting.

32 Will China really turn its back on Li'l Kim?

As long as they don't let him have enough diesel to get to Seoul, I'm good.  Revoking all of the leaderships' Chinese entry visa's might calm their shit down too.

33 As a Christian, let me reassure all of you that I did not kill anyone today.

And yesterday I was travelling, nowhere near where that hobo was found.  I have credit card receipts.

34 Someone put us some Koran knowledge: mass murder of infidels or Muslims not sufficiently supportive of mass murder is the height of 7th Century chic. What about 'normal' murder, are they cool with that, too?

35 most murders , have been commited by a person that might have driven a car or truck.

36

Take this normal deck of cards. Notice that the deck is still sealed. Think about the deck of cards you're holding in your hand.

You're holding the four of clubs.

37
So in Tavis' world being this is a center right country with the majority of folks here identifying with Christianity, if you kill someone because of jealousy or greed that is the same thing as flying planes into towers and beheading people in the name of Islam.

I get it now.

38 most murders , have been commited by a person that might have driven a car or truck.

Posted by: willow at May 28, 2010 06:31 PM (HyUIR)

Thank God windowless vans aren't on that list.  Whew...

39

Tavis Smiley is the black Bill Moyers.

Even my semi-intelligent lib friends consider him a complete embarrassment; I jab them by reminding them there's no way PBS ever gets rid of him.

40

Tavis Smiley is the black Bill Moyers.

That's a low blow to both guys.

41 Pennsylvania murderers?

Bitter,gun and bible clinging murderers.

42 Look, about religiously motivated killing, I have the Devil in my head telling me to kill people ALL THE TIME. It's like 24/7 a voice putting out hits on people. Somehow though, I find ways to resist that voice. I never do it. I never listen. Sure, sometimes I'll knock someone down and take a big long piss on 'em but I don't KILL em. I'm not a lunatic.

43 Love, love, love Hirsi Ali's "you are fucking bonkers, dude" look at the end of the vid.  Unfortunately, there are more than a dozen whack jobs who think just like him.

44

Know who else kills a lot of people every day??

...black people

45

Would it be racist for me to point out that the majority of the folks murdering people in this country look just like Tavis and blindly vote time and time again for the Democrats ?

46 As long as they don't let him have enough diesel to get to Seoul, I'm good.  Revoking all of the leaderships' Chinese entry visa's might calm their shit down too.

Posted by: Jean at May 28, 2010 06:29 PM (CPefM)

Apparently the NorKs' artillery and multiple-rocket launchers could deliver between 5,000 and 10,000 rounds on targets in the area between the DMZ and the outskirts of Seoul within the first minute of an attack.  Let's hope they don't get to use too much of the element of surprise -- better yet, let's hope they don't get the idea to attack in the first place.

47 Thank God windowless vans aren't on that list.  Whew..

Or bicycles, motorcycles, Amish buggies, and low-flying planes.

48 What would Tavis call the unrelenting murders in Chicago?

You can't call them anything, that would be racist.

49 So in Tavis' world being this is a center right country with the majority of folks here identifying with Christianity, if you kill someone because of jealousy or greed that is the same thing as flying planes into towers and beheading people in the name of Islam.

Exactly.  It's worse than that, in fact.  In Greece and Russia, murders are carried out in the name of Orthodox Christianity.  In Italy, there are multiple murders every day in the name of Benedict XVI.  I understand that the July 7 bombings in London can be traced back to the Queen through the Anglican Church, because the bombers were in fact British citizens.  And just yesterday a young black man in San Francisco killed another in a driveby shooting, all because the Wiccan Bathhouse he visits told him to.

This of course doesn't apply to Islam, the Religion of Peace.  Becuase it's the religion of Peace, and shit.

50

Posted by: Blazer at May 28, 2010 06:17 PM

Big Amish community near me. Those Amish kids go fucking wild during Rumspringa

51 Fucking electricity using Mennonites give us a bad name.

52 In before morgenholz asks if Smiley can stand on his hands.

Posted by: Dang Straights at May 28, 2010 06:15 PM (fx8sm)

He can.

53
Thank God windowless vans aren't on that list.  Whew..





I know, thank gaia for that.

54 What about 'normal' murder, are they cool with that, too?

Posted by: t-bird at May 28, 2010 06:31 PM (FcR7P)

No, no, of course not.  Murder is haram.

Of course, killing a non-believer doesn't count as murder.

55 Bob Dole's tax dollars at work.

56

45

Know who else kills a lot of people every day??

...black people

FTW, beedubya.  and I denounce you!

LOL, that analogy can't be carried real far, can it?

57

Holy Shit!

I just finished some extensive research that concludes that all murderers drank milk when they were younger.

 

You know what that means, right? Yep, Milk makes you murder people.

58 I would donate to PBS for the occasional Ken Burns special that I like, but stuff like this makes me say no. 

Posted by: Joe at May 28, 2010 06:18 PM (0Gde6)

Fuck Ken Burns and his boring sociology stories posing as history.  Don't get me started on that worthless Jazz series where he was taking dual spooges from Marsalis and Crouch.  He's just like Moyers and jizzmop Charlie Rose sucking off the public teat.

59 Can we please tone down the Amish hate on this thread?

As the resident representative of CAAR, I can tell you we are seriously thinking of some very lucrative just and noble lawsuits.

60 People don't kill people, Democrats kill people.

Every wonder why they want to give felons the vote?

61 Fuck Ken Burns and his boring sociology stories posing as history.

You know what I find most fascinating about baseball?  The reserve clause and the color barrier.

I also hear there are sticks involved somehow.

62 This is why serious black thinkers should never visit with Tavis .
Smiley and Thomas Sowel must be from different planets .

63

Uh oh, it's old man Amish!

Everyone look busy so he don't start jawing about lawyers and the pristine purity of mathematics.

*Pretends to be cleaning a hobo corpse*

64 More Christians have been killed because of their faith in the last 100 years than all of the previous years of Christendom.

65 Can we please tone down the Amish hate on this thread?

Okay, just for you, we'll start in on the Quakers, followed by the Rastafarians, the Native American Church, and the devotees of Santeria (The Chicken better not show up on this thread for its own safety).

66 Fuckin Ken Burns .. Shoulda' know where he was headed when he kept referring to Stonewall Jackson as a blue eyed killer . I reckon Grant , Sheridan , Chamberlain and Sherman were with the Peace Corps .

67 What frosts me is how an obvious sub-normal intellect like Smiley gets away with idiocies of this caliber.  And let's be honest about the reason:  he's black.  His liberal listeners are willing to excuse any amount of idiocy because they are fucking racists.

68 "One attacker climbed on top of the minaret of the mosque, firing an assault rifle and throwing hand grenades" I think this is known as the "call to prayer".

69 I think this is known as the "call to prayer".

Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 28, 2010 07:05 PM (0onAO)

"Calling the Faithful to disassembly"

70

My youngest brother used the "christians kill" argument when he was visiting a few years ago. I think it has something to do with justification of hatred of any religion with the exception of global warming.

I told him I had missed the sunday school classes about bomb making and hating others. I asked him if they maybe taught it in the classroom when he went to a Catholic grammar school.

71 Tavis Smiley is a moron. (The bad sort of moron, not a Moron.)

72 90% of murders committed in the US are committed by Democrats, regardless of their party affiliation.

73

Oops, meant to say "90% of murders committed in the US are committed by Democrats, regardless of their RELIGIOUS affiliation."

Good comment gone bad.  Damnit!

74 What we are talking about is murders committed for the sake of religion -- and no, Tavis, Christians are not killing people every day because Jesus told them they'd get into heaven if they do.

However, Leftists are killing people everyday because Marx, Planned Parenthood, or Francis Galton (even if they don't know who he is), told them to.

75 What frosts me is how an obvious sub-normal intellect like Smiley gets away with idiocies of this caliber.  And let's be honest about the reason:  he's black.  His liberal listeners are willing to excuse any amount of idiocy because they are fucking racists.

Posted by: Trimegistus at May 28, 2010 07:00 PM (sPvX2)

Gee, I wonder if any other well-known Black icons of the Left are currently enjoying the same relaxed standards.  Prominent politicians, maybe?  One in particular?

76

Nun wildings!

77 Hell, Tavis isn't talking about Christians.  He's talking about white people.

78 Well, I'm convinced by Tavis' iron-clad logic. To wit:

* When an eco-commie cultist commits a crime, Al Gore is responsible.
* When an evangelical atheist commits a crime, Richard Dawkins is responsible.
* When a dim-witted liberal hag commits a crime, Joy Behar et al. are responsible.
* When a boring hack musician commits a crime, Rage Against the Machine is   responsible.
* When a race-pimp commits a crime, Al Sharpton is responsible.
* When a mentally-ill homosexual commits a crime, Andrew Sullivan is responsible.
* When a goat fancier rapes a goat, Bill Clinton is responsible.
(etc.)

Right?

79

"Would it be racist for me to point out that the majority of the folks murdering people in this country look just like Tavis?..."

No it would not, and as far as Gotham City itself is concerned, my office has the stats to prove it.

Not that you'd ever know that from reading a Batman comic book, though.

 

 

80 This is America in the 21st century.  Our tax dollars being spent to defame the people of America and defend our enemies.  And don't think Hirsi Ali is any better, she's the biggest Muslim apologist and terrorism denier of all.

81 stuiec - that's been a given for 30years; why the RoK hasn't fixed it with zoning and resettlement I don't know -- it's like offering hostages to an insane serial killer.

82 I can only imagine the psychological strain of trying to have an intelligent debate with someone who displays such bufoonery as Tavis Smiley.

83 You'd think that of all people someone from the most violent racial group in America would have more sense than to engage in this kind of crap.

84 As long as there are no Pastafarian murderers, it's all good.

85 Deportation.

86 Tavis was kicked off of the hyperpartisan, blaxploitating mishap of a morning show run by tom joyner for daring to say something positive about shrillary in '08.  The guy is unfortunately still a self-important bigot and a token leftist retard, guised as objective by PBS.  Just watch the commercials that precede his show, announcing their sponsorship of it.  I'll never do business with any of them, nationwide and its smug-voiced announcer can shove it.

87 And don't think Hirsi Ali is any better, she's the biggest Muslim apologist and terrorism denier of all. Posted by: the peanut gallery at May 28, 2010 08:31 PM (mg/vv) When did that happen? Her book was definitely not a denial of terrorism. Are you sure you're not mixing her up with someone else?

88

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89 I am actually glad when these complete idiots utter these fantastic phrases. How glibly they fall out of their mouths. Maybe after enough of the distortions are uttered people will give them no credence whatsoever, which is what they deserve. But, I doubt it.

90 I wish I'd said that.

91

The Columbine example had me laughing.  The deranged boys who did that have an entire pdf file that was later released on the internet on what they wanted to do, what they believed etc.  They said "there are no gods we are god" and when they were killing students they would ask "are you a christian" like that poor girl who had a simple cross on and when she said yes they killed her.

When you have to make up examples to prove your point like Tavis then you know there is something wrong with the man upstairs in his mind. Sad.

92 My preacher last Sunday was just admonishing his flock about all the killing they had been doing lately.  Its practically the wild west around here, just with christians instead of outlaws.

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