February 26, 2014

One Picture Tells The Tale of Syria
— Ace

I have no political point here. I am only posting this because some photographs are so arresting. So this is one of the few times I'm saying something nice about journalists.

The Daily Mail reports:

Hundreds of men, women and children fight to get to the front of the queue as a refugee camp in Damascus receives food parcels after being cut off for months.

Today the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) called on rebel forces and Al-Assad’s troops alike to allow ‘safe and unhindered humanitarian access’ to thousands of civilians in Yarmouk, a Palestinian district in the Syrian capital.

Yarmouk has seen some of the worst fighting in the capital, leading to severe food shortages and widespread hunger.

See the below picture for as powerful a proof as imaginable that one picture is worth a thousand words.


Picture credit: AFP/GettyImages

We should always remember: It can be worse. It is worse in most of the world; it has been worse for most of human history.

That isn't a call for "moderation" in fighting for freedom and human dignity; it's just noting that most Americans should be more grateful.

Thanks to BB.

Posted by: Ace at 10:07 AM | Comments (424)
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1 Muslim Paradise.

Posted by: maddogg at February 26, 2014 10:09 AM (xWW96)

2 sad

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl SPRING TRAINING BEGINS TODAY at February 26, 2014 10:09 AM (u8GsB)

3 Numero dos?

Posted by: maddogg at February 26, 2014 10:09 AM (xWW96)

4 Oh, I say it's an arresting photograph, *until/unless* it's proven to be cloned/altered.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2014 10:10 AM (/FnUH)

5 Red line? What red line.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 26, 2014 10:10 AM (HVff2)

6 Just remember most of these poor folks were likely dancing in the streets on 9-11.

Posted by: maddogg at February 26, 2014 10:11 AM (xWW96)

7 bunched up like that, one round would get them all...

haven't they ever heard of 5 meter separation for tactical feeding?

Posted by: redc1c4 at February 26, 2014 10:11 AM (q+fqH)

8 There are plenty of places in the world just meant for leaving. We have got to fight to keep what we have here.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 26, 2014 10:12 AM (l3vZN)

9 Ooof. What a desperate situation.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at February 26, 2014 10:12 AM (AQMFK)

10 Yeah, things are bad there.  But there are no good guys in that fight.  ERGO contrary to McShitstain we have no dog in that fight.


Besides, since we're reducing the military to pre-WWII levels we need to reduce out militarty committments to pre-WWII levels.  IOW bring every troop home and shutdown every base outside of the US and its possessions.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 10:13 AM (T2V/1)

11 So, how does anything like this ever go back to a semblance of normality? You have two sides that are nuts and fighting each other. Eventually, there will be a blood bath.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 10:13 AM (6Nj7A)

12 Someone needs to get a hold of the EXIF data on that. Insane composition.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at February 26, 2014 10:13 AM (xrX4n)

13 My pet jawa had a video that supposedly showed Syrian soldiers torturing puppies and kittens. Fuck both sides.

Posted by: Adam at February 26, 2014 10:14 AM (Aif/5)

14 we have no dog in that fight. If we did, it would have been eaten by now.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 10:14 AM (6Nj7A)

15 It's hard to see Baracka's red line with all those people in the picture.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2014 10:14 AM (/o+xv)

16 Makes me feel like an amateur, thats for sure.

Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2014 10:15 AM (+cx5n)

17 Where's the charred teddy bear? There's supposed to be a charred stuffed animal in the picture.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 10:15 AM (SY2Kh)

18 Dear Mr O'Spades:

What's so bad about these people's situation? They've been liberated from their boring jobs, they're getting free food and health care from a caring international body, and look at all the shovel-ready jobs once the proper administrative documents have been approved!

Really, Mr. O'Spades, this is just the kind of utopia I and my Democratic friends in Congress, along with President Obama, are working for in our wonderful country! Can't you spare $5, $10, or $20 to bring this kind of bliss to your neighborhood soon??

Posted by: Nancy Pelosie, AKA 'Botoxica, Queen of the Damned' at February 26, 2014 10:15 AM (DLu2s)

19 The back of it looks a little touched up to me, not in a way that's trying to make it look worse, just that it doesn't quite look real. Still a horrifying sight.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 10:16 AM (Pfvig)

20 11 So, how does anything like this ever go back to a semblance of normality? You have two sides that are nuts and fighting each other. Eventually, there will be a blood bath. It doesn't. Look at the Balkins. 80 years, generations, living in peace together, and as soon at the USSR is gone the knives came out.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 26, 2014 10:16 AM (N/cFh)

21 These are Palestinians, who have been the most supportive of the jihadi element in the Syrian opposition, which is why they have "seen some of the worst of the fighting". They've seen the worst of the fighting because they are supplying so many of the worst of the fighters.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 10:16 AM (ZPrif)

22 AFP is sometimes a little shaky in the propaganda pic department. But this looks real, real bad.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 26, 2014 10:16 AM (CnA98)

23 Needs more Penis.

Posted by: Sean Ludwick at February 26, 2014 10:16 AM (rR4fe)

24 Wow, this is terrible. We should send in the troops and kill... somebody. Because we're on the side of Goodness. Not Badness.

Posted by: jwest at February 26, 2014 10:16 AM (u2a4R)

25 Can someone photoshop some Macy's Thanksgiving balloons in there?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2014 10:16 AM (/o+xv)

26 Oh, I say it's an arresting photograph, *until/unless* it's proven to be cloned/altered.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2014 02:10 PM
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It's AFP/Getty sourced, so the chances for authenticity are far higher than an image distributed by the AP or Reuters.

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2014 10:16 AM (JBggj)

27 12 Someone needs to get a hold of the EXIF data on that. Insane composition. Posted by: weft cut-loop Looks real and unaltered to me.

Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2014 10:16 AM (+cx5n)

28 For those who may be interested, the first two episodes of the best series on WW1: http://goo.gl/lu0kql Which of course they blame for everything in the MidEast.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 10:16 AM (6Nj7A)

29 14 we have no dog in that fight. If we did, it would have been eaten by now. Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 02:14 PM (6Nj7A) Well, no dogs or Jooz are allowedÂ…

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 10:16 AM (olDqf)

30 One wonders if Damascus is completely destroyed. That was predicted in the book of Isaiah.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 26, 2014 10:16 AM (36Rjy)

31 ace, I thought you didn't feel like working today. This is what, 5 posts (with content even!) by 2pm after starting prior to noon? Humblebrag.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 26, 2014 10:16 AM (gBnkX)

32 What difference at this point does it make?

Posted by: Hiliary "does it really matter" Clinton at February 26, 2014 10:17 AM (e8kgV)

33 One Picture Tells The Tale of Syria I have no political point here. I am only posting this because some photographs are so arresting. So this is one of the few times I'm saying something nice about journalists. The Daily Mail reports: Hundreds of men, women and children fight to get to the front of the queue as a refugee camp in Damascus receives food parcels after being cut off for months. Today the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) called on rebel forces and Al-Assad’s troops alike to allow ‘safe and unhindered humanitarian access� to thousands of civilians in Yarmouk, a Palestinian district in the Syrian capital. Yarmouk has seen some of the worst fighting in the capital, leading to severe food shortages and widespread hunger. See the below picture for as powerful a proof as imaginable that one picture is worth a thousand words. Picture credit: AFP/GettyImages We should always remember: It can be worse. It is worse in most of the world; it has been worse for most of human history Syria. Could be London, Berlin, Stalingrad.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2014 10:17 AM (CRyse)

34

Where's the charred teddy bear? There's supposed to be a charred stuffed animal in the picture.

 

 

Pfft. Teddy bears get all the love.

 

Posted by: The Aquatic Sloth at February 26, 2014 10:17 AM (A0sHn)

35 I hope the fighting continues as long as possible.

Posted by: steevy at February 26, 2014 10:17 AM (zqvg6)

36

But that does not match the sheer horror of Jeb Bush running for the 2016 GOP nomination!

/sarc

 

Yes, I am exaggerating, but man people here at the old AoSHQ do work themselves up into a lather at the first rumor.

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Clean Up You Caucus! Rumor Soap with Lathering Phosphates at the Outrage Outlet! at February 26, 2014 10:17 AM (hLRSq)

37 28 Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 02:16 PM (6Nj7A) Is this the TV series from the 1960's narrated by Robert Ryan? If so, I highly recommend it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 10:18 AM (olDqf)

38 They all look a bit healthy and clean to be in such a trashed city

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 26, 2014 10:18 AM (36Rjy)

39 we have no dog in that fight.

If we did, it would have been eaten by now. Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 02:14 PM
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Huh?  (burp)

Posted by: Some Guy In The White House at February 26, 2014 10:18 AM (JBggj)

40 It's AFP/Getty sourced, so the chances for authenticity are far higher than an image distributed by the AP or Reuters. Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2014 02:16 PM (JBggj) A lot depends on if they use local stringers. And didn't AFP get into a shit load of trouble for selective publishing of photos of a kid getting shot in the West Bank?

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 10:18 AM (6Nj7A)

41 There, for but the grace of God, goes all of us. Pray that this is not a foreshadowing of our own future.

Posted by: Cato at February 26, 2014 10:18 AM (OdVTN)

42 Come get your pork kebab's, red hot pork kebab's here!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2014 10:18 AM (/o+xv)

43 So that is what the Burning Times are going to look like.

Posted by: Citizen X at February 26, 2014 10:18 AM (7ObY1)

44 it begins ...Harry Reid: All ObamaCare horror stories are untrue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSJOLivL-NU

Posted by: Debbie Weaselwords-Schultz at February 26, 2014 10:19 AM (e8kgV)

45 4 Oh, I say it's an arresting photograph, *unless* it's proven to be cloned/altered. Posted by: ace As someone who has pent way too much time analyzing fake Middle East photos (http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/), I can say that I see no evidence of fakery. Cloning/Photoshopping people (as opposed to inanimate things) is exponentially more difficult.

Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2014 10:19 AM (+cx5n)

46 I have to say, I see this kind of thing all the time due to my husband's career. This is what he does. Offers relief in food, water, shelter, meds, etc. Even a simple blanket we take for granted.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 26, 2014 10:19 AM (IXrOn)

47 ItÂ’s only sheer luck or maybe fate that we here on the blog were born here. I know that we have Canadians & some Aussies here too.

Posted by: Carol at February 26, 2014 10:19 AM (z4WKX)

48 There's Waldo!

Posted by: garrett at February 26, 2014 10:19 AM (rR4fe)

49 They are all standing in line to hear Zero's next inspirational gas letting.

Posted by: maddogg at February 26, 2014 10:19 AM (xWW96)

50 Is this the TV series from the 1960's narrated by Robert Ryan? If so, I highly recommend it. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 02:18 PM (olDqf) No, this is from 2003. I do know thee one you are referring to, I think... But I thought it had an English guy narrating it. Then again, it is a common practice to take a documentary and substitute narrators.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 10:20 AM (6Nj7A)

51 It's kinda like a picture of some bombed out region of Chechnya and saying how Chechnya has seen some of the worst of Russia's war in the Caucasus. It's true. But it's true because Chechnya supplies so many of the fighters.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 10:20 AM (ZPrif)

52 i'm sure someone is wearing red lined something or other. I had read Putin warships were there. I guess that didn't really help. or maybe they did help/

Posted by: willow at February 26, 2014 10:20 AM (nqBYe)

53 That picture was taken South of Eight Mile.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 26, 2014 10:21 AM (l3vZN)

54 IT'S A FAKE!!

I see some melted steel in that photo, AND FIRE DOES NOT MELT STEEL! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

Posted by: ROSIE O'DONNELL YELLS ALL THE TIME THESE DAYS at February 26, 2014 10:21 AM (DLu2s)

55 50 Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 02:20 PM (6Nj7A) "The World at War" was WW-2 and narrated by Laurence Olivier. An English VO actor named Robert Powell does a lot of the Nugus-Martin war documentaries that are on Discovery Military channel.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 10:22 AM (olDqf)

56 53 That picture was taken South of Eight Mile. Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 26, 2014 02:21 PM (l3vZN) Dearborn on election day.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 10:22 AM (olDqf)

57 Don't worry, the UN Refugee Resettlement Program will have them all settled in a neighborhood near you soon. Funny how Islam creates millions of Islamic refugees.

Posted by: Beagle at February 26, 2014 10:22 AM (sOtz/)

58 i'm certain Russia , Iran, and China will be the world peace keepers and do a much better job , being as they are kinder and gentler advocates for peace. As It's noted in History .

Posted by: willow at February 26, 2014 10:22 AM (nqBYe)

59 Thank you founding fathers for giving us a system of goernment so good it took the bastards 225 years to figure out how to fuck it up.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 26, 2014 10:23 AM (SO2Q8)

60 The pic has a curved quality to it. Not saying it was faked or anything, but whatever technique was used (the kind of lens?) gives it a composed vibe.

Posted by: GOP Primary Voter at February 26, 2014 10:23 AM (IN7k+)

61 @58. The world wanted us gone, it did its best to make it a reality, so the world gets what it deserves.

Posted by: Cato at February 26, 2014 10:23 AM (OdVTN)

62 I'd hate to be standing near one of those buildings when it collapses.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 26, 2014 10:23 AM (oFCZn)

63 Just curious, why are these people repeatedly referred to as "Palestinian refugees"? All that mass suffering and starvation must be the fault of those evil Zionists, and not at all a result of sectarial Arab animosities.

Posted by: Hoser Refugee at February 26, 2014 10:23 AM (pnwfX)

64 Someone waaaay in the back is yelling. Achmed.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2014 10:24 AM (/o+xv)

65 53 "That picture was taken South of Eight Mile." I thought I recognized the Top Hat at Gratiot and Chene.

Posted by: jwest at February 26, 2014 10:24 AM (u2a4R)

66 And didn't AFP get into a shit load of trouble for selective publishing of photos of a kid getting shot in the West Bank? Posted by: Judge Pug
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All I know is that every time I see a AP or Reuters credit for an image snapped within 500 miles of Jerusalem, the BS alarm bell rings like a sunovabitch.

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2014 10:24 AM (JBggj)

67 Dack, The mac & cheese I had last week at Five Napkin burger was okay, not great. I prefer the Kraft version.

Posted by: Carol at February 26, 2014 10:24 AM (z4WKX)

68 Yep, nobody asks why the Syrians keep the Palestinians in refugee camps. Why weren't they absorbed into some pan-arab, pan-Islamic wonderland?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 10:25 AM (ZPrif)

69

"That isn't a call for "moderation" in fighting for freedom and human dignity; it's just noting that most Americans should be more grateful."

 

Yes we should be more grateful. We should be paying higher taxes so we can flush even more money down the Middle East shit hole.

Posted by: drill_thrawl at February 26, 2014 10:25 AM (H84UO)

70 The half-price sale on suicide vests looks to have been a big hit with local consumers.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 10:25 AM (SY2Kh)

71 I think that's crocadile Dundee in the back walking on top of them...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 26, 2014 10:25 AM (SO2Q8)

72 Cato. I suppose we might get a snarly hysterical laugh at it all. But really how sad it is when no-one will envolve themselves until too late. But i do have to say I will not miss the Europeans using US for their defense us paying most of the costs of war while simultaneously also protecting Their interests while they sneer and shoot us in the back.

Posted by: willow at February 26, 2014 10:26 AM (nqBYe)

73

Someone clear it up for me: Is Assad a reformer or deserving of some cruise missiles today?

 

And yes, poverty in America is still upper 10% in the world.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 26, 2014 10:26 AM (0Ng0w)

74 involve

Posted by: willow at February 26, 2014 10:26 AM (nqBYe)

75 4 Oh, I say it's an arresting photograph, *unless* it's proven to be cloned/altered. Posted by: ace at February 26, 2014 02:10 PM (/FnUH) *********** Blow it up big--I'm not liking certain lines of demarcation that I am seeing in the photo. Mostly the background.

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 10:26 AM (RJMhd)

76 The mac & cheese I had last week at Five Napkin burger was okay, not great. I prefer the Kraft version. Posted by: Carol at February 26, 2014 02:24 PM (z4WKX) Hmmm. Mac and Cheese. Might have to do that again soon.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 26, 2014 10:26 AM (oFCZn)

77 How many of those people would eagerly join in to a chant of "Death to America?"

Posted by: Lucky Pierre at February 26, 2014 10:26 AM (5fSr7)

78 At first blush I thought that was a picture of downtown Detroit before a big Powerball jackpot.

Posted by: MacGruber at February 26, 2014 10:26 AM (sWgE+)

79 55 50 Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 02:20 PM (6Nj7A) "The World at War" was WW-2 and narrated by Laurence Olivier. An English VO actor named Robert Powell does a lot of the Nugus-Martin war documentaries that are on Discovery Military channel. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 02:22 PM (olDqf) No, the one I'm referring to has a lot of episodes and is footage from I think the V&A archives. It's long and some time the quality is not that great but still, it was footage I had not seen before. I'm trying to find it but I can't find it now.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 10:27 AM (6Nj7A)

80 It's Photoshopped.  I can tell.  Because of the pixels.

Posted by: AFP/Getty Never Lie at February 26, 2014 10:27 AM (tv7DV)

81 Looks like a typical day at the DMV. Or a glimpse into the future of people queuing up to see a doctor.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2014 10:27 AM (g1DWB)

82 Jwest is turning into Average Joe. The legend is true.

Posted by: Beagle at February 26, 2014 10:27 AM (sOtz/)

83 There was a time when this country came to the aid of the aid less. Clinton watches as Rwanda killed million and then his guilt made him go to Bosnia. We have no dog in this hunt, but we have opportunity. What would Eisenhower do? I think he would load up a 100 C-130 with non nonperishable food and fly those fucker over there and drop the food for the people and dare Assid to touch the planes. Obama? When's my next tee time?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 26, 2014 10:27 AM (0FSuD)

84 Flatbush, If they didn't keep them there they wouldn't have an Issue to use against Israel and us.

Posted by: willow at February 26, 2014 10:27 AM (nqBYe)

85 Needs more Penis. Posted by: Sean Ludwick at February 26, 2014 02:16 PM (rR4fe) If you are really in need, go to the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Reykjavik. or just watch the documentary The Final Member

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 26, 2014 10:27 AM (IXrOn)

86 I will not miss the Europeans using US for their defense us paying most of the costs of war while simultaneously also protecting Their interests while they sneer and shoot us in the back. Posted by: willow at February 26, 2014 02:26 PM (nqBYe) Amen.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 10:27 AM (Pfvig)

87 Images like this are *why* we fight. Human nature is constantly sliding towards chaos. If we think that this could not happen here, we become complacent.

Posted by: Lauren at February 26, 2014 10:27 AM (hFL/3)

88 I fully endorse steevy's comment. Peace requires there to be a clear winner in a conflict. Our post-modern concept of warfare has enabled constant strife, rather than allow for periods of true healing and growth.

Posted by: krakatoa at February 26, 2014 10:27 AM (eCtnP)

89 FAKE!!!

Posted by: One of the brain dead assholes who always yells "Fake". at February 26, 2014 10:28 AM (xWW96)

90 or shorter. Palestinians=ultimate useful tools.

Posted by: willow at February 26, 2014 10:28 AM (nqBYe)

91 45 4 Oh, I say it's an arresting photograph, *unless* it's proven to be cloned/altered. Posted by: ace As someone who has pent way too much time analyzing fake Middle East photos (http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/), I can say that I see no evidence of fakery. Cloning/Photoshopping people (as opposed to inanimate things) is exponentially more difficult. Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2014 02:19 PM (+cx5n) ********* Really? There's a line of people in the background where they are appearing to almost be all of the same height.

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 10:29 AM (RJMhd)

92 The pic has a curved quality to it. It's probably shot with about a 28mm lens. Gives a wide angle which is a disconcerting. The horizontal lines are pretty true, except where a building is leaning back, apparently near collapse.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 26, 2014 10:29 AM (CnA98)

93 They should have listened to Sam Kinnison. Man was a prophet...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 26, 2014 10:29 AM (SO2Q8)

94 Palestinians have been "refugees" in Yarmouk since 1957.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 10:29 AM (ZPrif)

95 Looks like a typical day at the DMV. Or a glimpse into the future of people queuing up to see a doctor. Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2014 02:27 PM (g1DWB) or blackfriday outside walmart

Posted by: willow at February 26, 2014 10:29 AM (nqBYe)

96 Wow. So sad. Sigh. As Ace said, another reason to be grateful (to God) for our own situation. Lord, please help these people.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 10:29 AM (r+7wo)

97 I say it's photoshopped. That said it does look like a still photo from World War Z.

Posted by: See You Next Tuesday at February 26, 2014 10:30 AM (DAevm)

98 Tammy! hug* have missed you.

Posted by: willow at February 26, 2014 10:30 AM (nqBYe)

99 Looks like a typical day at the DMV. Or a glimpse into the future of people queuing up to see a doctor. Morning after EBT cards quit working.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2014 10:30 AM (CRyse)

100 For 50 years the arab, muslim Syrians kept the arab, muslim Palestinians "refugees" in Yarmouk.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 10:31 AM (ZPrif)

101 What is wrong with this picture? Just another socialist paradise. The women obviously are not hot Venezuelan girls.

Posted by: Nicolás Maduro at February 26, 2014 10:31 AM (0FSuD)

102 I think the UPI should send a little blonde reporter into that mass by herself to interview some of the homies. 

Posted by: maddogg at February 26, 2014 10:31 AM (xWW96)

103 @72. Yeah, it's sad. But what else can we do at laugh? All I've got is a keyboard and one vote unless I want to go to the Democrat route to expand the latter. I already do all I can to try to stop the tide, but I'm just a regular guy that may as well be screaming at the wall.

Posted by: Cato at February 26, 2014 10:31 AM (OdVTN)

104 The "human carpet" of the picture, the way Every Available Square Foot of the bottom of the valley between the buildings contains someone, bothers me. Humans seem to never occupy space that way. The footage of various massive rallies of the past 100 years show some amount of room on the sides of such a picture. Even the walkways of sports events are not so thoroughly packed. I wonder if there's some CGI at work ...

Posted by: Arbalest at February 26, 2014 10:31 AM (FlRtG)

105 @77 But to be fair, how many students and leftist demostrators in this country would join in a chant of "Death to America!"?

Posted by: Beagle at February 26, 2014 10:31 AM (sOtz/)

106 If that is an actual photo it is tragic, but I am leery of accepting any photo at face value from that region.

Posted by: NotCoach at February 26, 2014 10:31 AM (rsudF)

107 Sad. Harsh. Reality. Check. War is not pretty. We are NOT the Worlds police any longer. No matter what we do, everyone will still condemn/hate us for not doing enough/too much/getting involved/not getting involved/etc. We cannot win so we should not waste resources we DO NOT have.

Posted by: lindafell at February 26, 2014 10:32 AM (PGO8C)

108 Again, they are too clean for those surroundings. And they don't look tired or hungry.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 26, 2014 10:32 AM (36Rjy)

109 It's actually the middle ground of the photo that bothers me the most. Where you can see boundaries in a sense.

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 10:32 AM (RJMhd)

110

Peace requires there to be a clear winner in a conflict. Our post-modern concept of warfare has enabled constant strife, rather than allow for periods of true healing and growth.

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Sounds like what i always say about the Arab/Israeli wars. They should be allowed to fight it out until one side has their boot on the others throat and he says uncle.  The U.N. stepping in to prevent one side losing just sets them up for the next war.

Luckily the Arabs tend to wear sandals...

 

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 26, 2014 10:32 AM (SO2Q8)

111
Blow it up big--I'm not liking certain lines of demarcation that I am seeing in the photo.

Mostly the background.

Posted by: tasker

Yeah, could be just a fortuitous moment with everything there but...

The clusters of people in the fore can be grouped together.  

Look at dead center, down 2 inches, woman with clasped hands perfectly framed. Again, lucky as all hell.

Also: looking at the distant background there's a tree trunk leaning up over over the road.

Now scroll down two pictures to the one of the aid worker checking a woman's ID. Top left, that tree. Compare the scale of the tree in that pic to the Canyon of People pic. Weird.

Yes, I know, that it's cliched to yell out FAKE at every pic but it is a incredibly lucky shot.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at February 26, 2014 10:32 AM (xrX4n)

112 O.K. I am conflicted. I am loathe to see suffering of people anywhere. Especially kids. But I also am guessing that 85% of the people on that street probably hate us and everything we stand for.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2014 10:32 AM (/o+xv)

113 Islam:  It ain't what's for dinner.

Posted by: Dang at February 26, 2014 10:33 AM (MNq6o)

114 wow

Posted by: Chris at February 26, 2014 10:33 AM (WjMgb)

115 it's just noting that most Americans should be more grateful. A great many people, who should know better, should indeed.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at February 26, 2014 10:33 AM (HCxYQ)

116 104 The "human carpet" of the picture, the way Every Available Square Foot of the bottom of the valley between the buildings contains someone, bothers me. Humans seem to never occupy space that way. The footage of various massive rallies of the past 100 years show some amount of room on the sides of such a picture. Even the walkways of sports events are not so thoroughly packed. I wonder if there's some CGI at work ... Posted by: Arbalest at February 26, 2014 02:31 PM (FlRtG) ********* Ya..... I say it looks fake and I'm actually not all that opposed to intervening--don't know enough to have a real opinion on the matter.

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 10:34 AM (RJMhd)

117 That's terrible! I'm taking action on my own, no matter what my handlers say I can or can't do! Find out where the nearest Domino's pizza is and if they'll take a Fed Visa card, I'm sending those poor people 100 extra-large MeatZZa's, with extra bacon!

Besides, if they don't get it there in 30 minutes it's free. I'm liking my chances!

Posted by: Joe Biden Cares! at February 26, 2014 10:34 AM (DLu2s)

118 OT: The Searchlight Strangler reassured this morning on the floor of the senate about Obamacare: "Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America," said Reid. And who's responsible? I'll give you two guesses because they are brothers.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 26, 2014 10:34 AM (Hx5uv)

119 We have lines like this in Venezuela for voting for me and getting toilet paper.

Posted by: Nicolás Maduro at February 26, 2014 10:34 AM (0FSuD)

120

Guys it doesn't matter if its photoshopped.

 

They live in SYRIA ffs. The heart of the Fred Flintstone wastelands. They want to p-shop a line? Fk it, I'm just glad I'm not anywhere nearby to smell it.

Posted by: Bigby's Waving Hands at February 26, 2014 10:34 AM (3ZtZW)

121 They cut off the EBT/SNAP/WIC payments in Anytown, USA?

Posted by: RWC at February 26, 2014 10:35 AM (fWAjv)

122 I wonder if there's some CGI at work ... Posted by: Arbalest at February 26, 2014 02:31 PM (FlRtG) I guess a lot of people haven't seen people in desperate need of the basic essentials, en masse, before. Parents desperately trying to feed their children. There are thousands pouring over the borders of Syria... Really. I'm with Ace. Day off.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 26, 2014 10:35 AM (IXrOn)

123 Yeah, could be just a fortuitous moment with everything there but... The clusters of people in the fore can be grouped together. Look at dead center, down 2 inches, woman with clasped hands perfectly framed. Again, lucky as all hell. Also: looking at the distant background there's a tree trunk leaning up over over the road. Now scroll down two pictures to the one of the aid worker checking a woman's ID. Top left, that tree. Compare the scale of the tree in that pic to the Canyon of People pic. Weird. Yes, I know, that it's cliched to yell out FAKE at every pic but it is a incredibly lucky shot. Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2014 02:32 PM (xrX4n) ********* Okay--going to check those things out.

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 10:35 AM (RJMhd)

124 3.more.years. to even attempt to recover.

Posted by: willow at February 26, 2014 10:35 AM (nqBYe)

125 Looks like the Detroit on gubmint cheese day.

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 26, 2014 10:36 AM (P1WNR)

126 All of them are untrue, eh fuckface? Do I need to go pull out my cancellation letter?

Posted by: Lauren at February 26, 2014 10:36 AM (hFL/3)

127 WSJ app on iPad just had blip that TFG Administration seeks to hold phone records longer. See, he is full of it when he says heÂ’s against the NSA. The man -child is a serial liar.

Posted by: Carol at February 26, 2014 10:36 AM (z4WKX)

128 Actually in Anytown, USA it will be much more violent.

Posted by: RWC at February 26, 2014 10:36 AM (fWAjv)

129 Warsaw Ghetto...

Posted by: Mallfly at February 26, 2014 10:36 AM (bJm7W)

130 My Dad taught me how to calculate number of people in a crowd, and I'd estimate over 1,200 are visible in the pic. After RainStorm Sandy blew through my area (Philly) the local press reported that 'thousands' appeared to receive checks from the local utility for food spoilage due to loss of electricity. Funny how the press never seems to get a photograph in the USA when bad things happen when a (D) sits in the WH.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 26, 2014 10:37 AM (CnA98)

131 Picture? What is with that "Tree" in the background on the left and the one guy standing above the crowd. He looks photo shopped.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 26, 2014 10:37 AM (0FSuD)

132 Good.  Lulzapalooza. 

Posted by: The bad 'ol USA what is the Great Satan at February 26, 2014 10:38 AM (zULK3)

133 Actually in Anytown, USA it will be much more violent. The bodies won't be standing.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2014 10:39 AM (CRyse)

134 Is this the line for the running of the Jew?

Posted by: Alah Akmed at February 26, 2014 10:39 AM (P1WNR)

135 Man, when you think of what CB de Mille could have done with extras like that...

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 26, 2014 10:40 AM (xq1UY)

136 Most Americans have no idea about Syria other than "nope." Part of my lethargy in fighting the destruction of the military is the realization Giggles doesn't need the toys.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 10:40 AM (TE35l)

137 Boy, BDS + PMS do not mix!

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 10:41 AM (6Nj7A)

138 I wonder if there's some CGI at work ...

Posted by: Arbalest at February 26, 2014 02:31 PM (FlRtG)

 

I use Photoshop and other graphics programs throughout most of my working day (and well into evening). I don't see any evidence of  'shooping. If it helps, we know from news reports that there have been several thousands of refugees created by this war, as there are in any war. Those thousands of refugees have to go somewhere. They have to move. They have to find food. It isn't beyond credulity that a good photojournalist happened to catch them at it. Besides, I don't see a strategically placed teddy bear anywhere. There's always a child's toy of some sort in a Middle Eastern-related doctored war scene photograph. They're the Waldo of faked photographs.

 

Sometimes tragedies are vast and real.

Posted by: troyriser at February 26, 2014 10:41 AM (V9ol4)

139 Based on the horrible photoshops I have seen from the Middle East, this is at a minimum the best I have seen. Could be planned and posed but legit imo.

Posted by: Beagle at February 26, 2014 10:41 AM (sOtz/)

140 Reminds me of the crowds that gathered to sign up for Obamacare.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 26, 2014 10:41 AM (pFqpP)

141 My sick sense of humor had me laughing at picturing a refugee being handed his food package and saying. "Excuse me, excuse me, sorry , excuse me, pardon me , sorry, excuse me" as he makes his way back through the crowd.

Posted by: See You Next Tuesday at February 26, 2014 10:41 AM (DAevm)

142 I don't know. Is there something that people do to clean up a photo that leaves sort of impressions of smaller squares? Maybe that is what I am "seeing"". I don't know enough about photography or photoshop.

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 10:41 AM (RJMhd)

143 And the caption should be: This Is What The "Rebels" Have Wrought

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 26, 2014 10:42 AM (9WnL1)

144 Looks like Arizona's bake sale over the weekend....Yummy!

Posted by: IrishEd at February 26, 2014 10:42 AM (D0NZx)

145 More than 1,200 Christians were martyred in Syria in 2013 alone and that over 600,000 have fled the country. Many still remain in Syria where they are at risk of abduction and acts of violence, and struggling with the same hardships as the rest of the population.

The Barnabas Fund estimates that between 30 and 40 per cent of churches in Syria have been seriously damaged or completely destroyed as a result of the fighting.

Riad Jarjour, a Presbyterian pastor from Homs and former president of the Middle East Council of Churches, said: "If this continues the way it is, there will come a time when there will be no more Christians in Syria."

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2014 10:42 AM (oMKp3)

146 I am sure their fellow Muslim brothers will be there soon to take care of them. ROP and all.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2014 10:42 AM (/o+xv)

147 O.K. I am conflicted. I am loathe to see suffering of people anywhere. Especially kids. But I also am guessing that 85% of the people on that street probably hate us and everything we stand for. Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2014 02:32 PM (/o+xv) Not sure why this should make one conflicted. Just because people hate you doesn't mean you should be conflicted about feeling pity or compassion for them. It shows the milk of human kindness on your part and Christ commands His people to love their enemies. (Not sure if you're a Christian.) What we do with regards to foreign policy is a separate matter.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 10:42 AM (r+7wo)

148 Gee, maybe they should have an election. That will solve everything. Or not. Maybe people who believe in a 6th century religion to the point they will blow themselves up aren't actually ready for a representative republic. I would recommend an All Powerful King who chops off the heads of people who look at him wrong. That's what they can understand. That's what they need. In another hundred years, we'll revisit and see what progress has been made.

Posted by: jwest at February 26, 2014 10:42 AM (u2a4R)

149 I first thought, "wow, that city looks bombed out and terrible."  Then I read it was the palestinian district, and I thought, "wow, that place looks pretty nice."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 26, 2014 10:42 AM (8ZskC)

150 Shades of New Orleans post Katrina.  These folks must have been incredibly obese to begin with because all I'm seeing are plump and rosy cheeked men, women and children.  The only people looking bad are the halt, lame and elderly.  Bill of goods.  I'm not buying.

Posted by: Mazzuchelli at February 26, 2014 10:43 AM (168MX)

151 Another community organized!

Posted by: Barky O'Genius, With His Belt-End Caught In the Golf-Ball Washer Again at February 26, 2014 10:43 AM (DLu2s)

152 These aren't "refugees" from the war. This refugee camp has been a refugee camp since 1957. These people have been living there the whole time. It's just gotten shittier lately because Assad has used artillery on them. And he did that because so many of their young men were shooting and launching rockets from there.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 10:44 AM (ZPrif)

153 Photo Caption. Arab Spring.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2014 10:44 AM (/o+xv)

154 28 For those who may be interested, the first two episodes of the best series on WW1: http://goo.gl/lu0kql Which of course they blame for everything in the MidEast. Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 02:16 PM (6Nj7A) I have that complete documentary on DVD (4 DVD set). Very highly recommended. Good footage. Well narrated.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at February 26, 2014 10:44 AM (HCxYQ)

155 Can't Haiti send them a ship load of dirt cookies or something?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 10:44 AM (6bMeY)

156 It's basically just a small area in suburban Damascus.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 10:44 AM (ZPrif)

157

I used a high tech device called a mouse to click on the link to the Daily Telegraph story, which includes other photographs.  It's sad.  The women and children did not volunteer to be pawns in the Palestinian Refugee Shuffle.

 

These are people.  The key to the universe is to treat people as individuals, not as representatives of a group or a despised Other. 

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at February 26, 2014 10:44 AM (A0sHn)

158 No, this is from 2003. I do know thee one you are referring to, I think... But I thought it had an English guy narrating it. Then again, it is a common practice to take a documentary and substitute narrators. That is, I think, the series based on the Hew Stachan book. And I agree. This is the best series on WWI.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 26, 2014 10:44 AM (Hx5uv)

159 This could easily be Fallujah, circa 2004.

Posted by: Mr Wolf at February 26, 2014 10:44 AM (nRgwZ)

160 One other thing about the picture looks .. inexplicable. The guy in the center of the picture, with the dark brown overcoat, light blue shirt, and dark scarf, facing the camera ... ... over his right shoulder is a head ... that looks just a bit too large, and somehow out of place. Then, to his left, overlaying the guy in blue with the "FIRM", just under the "M", is a woman ... she looks unusually small, and the lighting on her hand ... ... calling Dr. J. Strangepork, to explain the inexplicable ...

Posted by: Arbalest at February 26, 2014 10:45 AM (FlRtG)

161
I saw Virgin Goats open for Lady Gaga in Damascus in 2013.


This was the Damascus Ticket-Master Office que line when those tickets went on sale.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 26, 2014 10:45 AM (nELVU)

162 It is sad but these people, like the people of Detroit, are where they are because they have made decades of bad decisions.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 26, 2014 10:45 AM (Hx5uv)

163 I'm watching extreme couponing... Wonder why anyone would need that many boxes of tissue....oh.... Never mind

Posted by: phoenixgirl@phxazgrl at February 26, 2014 10:45 AM (u8GsB)

164 In Syria it's dictator vs jihadis. Don't care much who wins. Both sides are evil.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 10:46 AM (ZPrif)

165 Photo Caption. Arab Spring.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2014 02:44 PM (/o+xv)


That's the last time I use that brand of soap!

Posted by: Goatly, yes, but I like it too at February 26, 2014 10:46 AM (tv7DV)

166 But in the end the White House decided not to move my nomination forward. There were two reasons. First, taxes. In 2009 and 2010, the years of my divorce, I filed my taxes late — four weeks and 10 days, respectively. Second, I was not willing to commit to never criticizing the administration, nor to restricting my publishing agenda to topics that were unlikely to be controversial. There is just no point trying to be a public intellectual if you can’t speak your mind. This requirement was conveyed and discussed through phone calls; I have no written record to prove it. But that was how it went.

... Wow ! So you have to put your manhood in a hermetically sealed jar on the porch of Funk & Wagnalls

Posted by: Johnny Carson at February 26, 2014 10:46 AM (e8kgV)

167 These are people. The key to the universe is to treat people as individuals, not as representatives of a group or a despised Other.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at February 26, 2014 02:44 PM (A0sHn)


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Yes.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2014 10:46 AM (oMKp3)

168 "AFP is sometimes a little shaky in the propaganda pic department. But this looks real, real bad.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at February 26, 2014 02:16 PM (CnA9 "


How bad is it, really? Look at the faces of those people. Do they appear to be gaunt, emaciated, starving? Are they dressed in rags? Doesn't look like it to me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 26, 2014 10:46 AM (pFqpP)

169 OT. From Ace's post yesterday regarding the American Atheists at CPAC. Looks like CPAC made the right call on their dooshy trollness. Per Mediate. American Atheists Still Plan to Be at CPAC ‘Even If They Don’t Want Us There’

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2014 10:47 AM (/o+xv)

170 The women who urge their sons to be jihadis damn sure did volunteer for the war.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 10:47 AM (ZPrif)

171 Did anyone find Waldo?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 10:47 AM (6bMeY)

172 Looks like a nice place for a Willy-Pete.  Or since lunch is being served, a W80 dressed with it's cobalt dinner jacket.  Piss on them, I'm tired of their whines.  We shouldn't "meddle" in their affairs by sending food or medicine. 

Posted by: The Great Satan, I got your pity hanging at February 26, 2014 10:47 AM (zULK3)

173 It is sad but these people, like the people of Detroit, are where they are because they have made decades of bad decisions.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 26, 2014 02:45 PM (Hx5uv)


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How much self-determination have the people of Syria had in the last few decades?

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2014 10:47 AM (oMKp3)

174 157 Fruity Bandersnatch, Bwahaha!! //Lois Lerner

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 10:47 AM (TE35l)

175 @157 LOL. Individualism is a quaint western notion. Wrap your mind around a total belief system of religion, politics, warfare, and every minute detail of your life: haram v. halal.

Posted by: Beagle at February 26, 2014 10:48 AM (sOtz/)

176 t is sad but these people, like the people of Detroit, are where they are because they have made decades of bad decisions. Posted by: WalrusRex at February 26, 2014 02:45 PM (Hx5uv) Syria is not a free country like the USA, so I'm not sure that comparison is fair. There are lots of oppressed people in the world who are completely at the mercy of evil men in power and have absolutely no recourse. Be grateful you live in the USA. People in the West seem to take these things for granted. For example, you guys have elections every 4 years (or 2 for congress) like clockwork, and succession happens without incident. That is very rare in the world.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 10:49 AM (r+7wo)

177 It's unlikely this picture was faked- it's not the sort of shot you can fake and easily get away with. You'd have to assume that none of the UN aid workers or people in the crowd had a camera phone or would otherwise call bullshit on it.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 10:49 AM (SY2Kh)

178 Someone should show this photo to that blubbering idiot note taker on the UCLA student council. See the top side bar link. Idiot college students like that are a complete waste of taxpayer money. Could someone please send that tw*t to Syria to do some humanitarian work?

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 26, 2014 10:49 AM (Uo7Tv)

179 "Palestinian Refugee Shuffle" what is that? Do you know anything about the topic? Explain your oh-so-cute phrase.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 10:49 AM (ZPrif)

180 Hi willow!! Right back atcha!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 10:50 AM (Pfvig)

181 So, just how many of these people would turn their backs on food if they knew that it had been provided by Jews? Or Christians? Not that I don't feel for them, but I have a feeling I know the answer to both of those questions....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX (@Teresa_Koch) at February 26, 2014 10:50 AM (PZ6/M)

182 Palestinian Shuffle. Move it to the left, move it to the right, detonate yourself.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 10:50 AM (6bMeY)

183 3.more.years. to even attempt to recover. Recover what, willow? I may be reading too much in your comment, but the sentiment I am going to respond to is one I see from others here and elsewhere, and that I cannot agree with. So if I'm reading you wrong, I do apologize if this sounds combative: Recover our standing in the M.E.? I'm firmly in the camp that we have zero interest in the M.E. outside of supporting Israel, and punishing terrorists and their sponsors militarily. I was on board with the Bush Doctrine, of actively supporting freedom and democracy among people ruled by tyrants. It was worth a go. That doctrine, as noble it was in concept, is a failure with these people. Yes, "these people". I'm going to generalize here, as of course, there are exceptions; but those exceptions are not even close to being a transformative presence in the culture that dominates the M.E. These people are not capable of forgiveness. These people are not intellectually curious. These people are rigidly, violently intolerent. These people do not celebrate life; rather, they consider life cheap, disposable, and merely a temporal means to the end of enslaving others in service of their God and tribal wealth. These people have not earned the freedom to participate in the civilized world. And until these people are allowed to properly be held accountable for their stone-age cultural mores, they never will be. Holding them accountable doesn't necessarily mean bombing their infrastructure to match their ideology, although I am open to that. It means we, the modern world, simply allow these cultures to stand on their own feet, and sink or swim on their own merits. I am through spending American lives and dollars in pursuit of providing something that these people simply Do. Not. Want.

Posted by: krakatoa at February 26, 2014 10:51 AM (eCtnP)

184 Tammy al-Thor!! Where have you been?

Posted by: Carol at February 26, 2014 10:51 AM (z4WKX)

185

"Palestinian Refugee Shuffle" what is that? Do you know anything about the topic? Explain your oh-so-cute phrase.

 

Referring to all of the Arab states that have been keeping Palestinians in refugee camps rather than assimilating them, so that they can be used as political pawns.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at February 26, 2014 10:51 AM (A0sHn)

186 That town needs a building code.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 10:52 AM (6bMeY)

187 If it's that bad, and you are starving, why do you stay there?

Posted by: Kevin Kulloock at February 26, 2014 10:52 AM (yN+FN)

188 @179...  "we're not here, to start no trouble.  We're just getting down to the supabowl shuffle".

Posted by: Da Bears Shufflin Crew at February 26, 2014 10:52 AM (zULK3)

189 176 Chique D'Afrique, They have the same reciurse the founders did. Frankly it's why I am recalbrating my perspective. Obama is killing the rulebook. I may join him when able.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 10:53 AM (TE35l)

190 I say provide them all the genetic engineered good they can eat. We have tons of it that were rejected by the Central African countries.

Posted by: See You Next Tuesday at February 26, 2014 10:53 AM (DAevm)

191 Here is a stream of UN photos from Yarmouk--look more reliable. http://www.unrwa.org/galleries/photos/distribution-food-parcels-yarmouk

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 10:53 AM (RJMhd)

192 RiffRaff: It's astounding; Time is fleeting; Madness takes its toll. But listen closely... Magenta: Not for very much longer. RiffRaff: I've got to keep control. I remember doing the time-warp Drinking those moments when The Blackness would hit me Magenta: And the void would be calling... Transylvanians: Let's do the time-warp again. Let's do the time-warp again. Narrator: It's just a jump to the left. All: And then a step to the right. Narrator: Put your hands on your hips. All: You bring your knees in tight. But it's the pelvic thrust That really drives you insane. Let's do the time-warp again. Let's do the time-warp again.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 26, 2014 10:53 AM (Hx5uv)

193 43 So that is what the Burning Times are going to look like.

Posted by: Citizen X at February 26, 2014 02:18 PM (7ObY1)

 

You guys are increasingly apocalyptic.

Posted by: Froggy at February 26, 2014 10:54 AM (bVHVL)

194 Can we make a pork based vegemite like product to sell to them?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 10:54 AM (6bMeY)

195 Just because people hate you doesn't mean you should be conflicted about feeling pity or compassion for them. It shows the milk of human kindness on your part and Christ commands His people to love their enemies. I have a lot of work to do on the "love" part.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2014 10:55 AM (CRyse)

196 If it's that bad, and you are starving, why do you stay there? What, you mean they should hop in their non-existent cars and drive them over bombed out streets through hundreds of miles of war zone?

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 10:55 AM (SY2Kh)

197 1 Muslim Paradise.Posted by: maddogg at February 26, 2014 02:09 PM (xWW96)

Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away,
I'm living life, do or die, what can I say
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24
The way things are going I don't know

Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me

Been spending most their lives, living in the [Muslim's] paradise

Posted by: Coolio at February 26, 2014 10:55 AM (BF+2f)

198 We'll be sending over that food and medicine first thing.  Most Ricky-Tick.  We should freaking lace it with cesium.

Posted by: The Great Satan, just call and I'll be there at February 26, 2014 10:56 AM (zULK3)

199 hollowpoint
yes
walk
see pictures of Korea in the fifties.

Posted by: Kevin Kulloock at February 26, 2014 10:56 AM (yN+FN)

200 I gasped, and I don't GAS who is in the picture. Starvation and desperation are a horrible way to go through life. Dear Lord in Heaven be with them in their struggles.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 10:56 AM (DmNpO)

201 This isn't a picture of a refugee camp that people ran to to escape a war. This is a picture of an active warzone. And many of the people in that picture are no doubt active participants on the jihadi side of the Syrian civil war. The reason the buildings are bombed out is because this "refugee" camp was used as a base to launch attacks in the Syrian Civil War. These people aren't refugees. They were born there. They grew up there. The term refugee camp is just false in this instance. Most everyone in that photo was born in one of the 4 hospitals in that camp. It's basically like a ChinaTown, it's a neighborhood in suburban Damascus where Syria herded all the Palestinians 50 years ago.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 10:56 AM (ZPrif)

202 I don't know about Waldo, but I found R2D2 and C3PO.  And I think that's the Millenium Falcon on the roof over there.

Posted by: ILM at February 26, 2014 10:56 AM (tv7DV)

203 Has the Saudi Aid ship turned up yet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 10:56 AM (6bMeY)

204 I gasped, and I don't GAS who is in the picture. Starvation and desperation are a horrible way to go through life. Dear Lord in Heaven be with them in their struggles. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 02:56 PM (DmNpO) I feel the same way, NDH. Really sad.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 10:57 AM (r+7wo)

205 193 Froggy, Not at all. I welcome Ogabe's genius being deployed on the US grid... He did such a great job w/Ogabecare who could worry?

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 10:57 AM (TE35l)

206 ooooh I'm driving my life away lookin for a better way

Posted by: eddie rabbit at February 26, 2014 10:57 AM (9WnL1)

207 For example, you guys have elections every 4 years (or 2 for congress) like clockwork, and succession happens without incident.

None of the non-elected bureaucrats stifling freedom one "regulation" at a time in the federal agencies change.

It's sad that guy over there has no feet, but being grateful for chilblains instead of going out to find shoes is stupid.

Posted by: HR, watching scripts run at February 26, 2014 10:58 AM (ZKzrr)

208 There's no "shuffle" in staying in the same camp your grandparents moved to 50 years ago. Palestinian Refugee Shuffle implies a movement of people back and forth. There is no such thing. It's a clever sounding phrase but it makes no sense. It's historically ignorant.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 10:59 AM (ZPrif)

209 Has the Saudi Aid ship turned up yet? Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 02:56 PM .........I posed that question earlier. We hear all kinds of venom spewed toward us and the west. But their fellow Muslim brothers don't seem to care much about them.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2014 10:59 AM (/o+xv)

210 Looks just like another line to get on the bus to Mecca. Seriously, ever seen those pictures?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 26, 2014 11:00 AM (0FSuD)

211 I heard someone way in the back yell, "Whipping Post!"

Posted by: Mr. Dave at February 26, 2014 11:00 AM (7GJd1)

212 200 Niedermeyer's Dead Horse, If it's any solace we're headed that way w/in 50 years imho. Well "in fairness" more like Ciudad Juarez.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 11:00 AM (TE35l)

213 I don't see any port-a-potties in the photo.

Posted by: See You Next Tuesday at February 26, 2014 11:01 AM (DAevm)

214 This really is the story of Obama: His first television show has only been on the air for three days, but Ronan Farrow is already winning awards for his journalistic work. Reach the World, a global education group, will honor the 26-year-old Farrow with its annual Cronkite Award for Excellence in Exploration and Journalism. from the Corner on NRO

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 26, 2014 11:01 AM (Hx5uv)

215 What they need is free birth control. And more gay rights. Things would improve then.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at February 26, 2014 11:01 AM (R5UOB)

216 85, Not to be too picky, but the philological museum is in Húsavik; not the capital. Its a weird place. The guy who owns it wants a human penis to display and is looking for volunteers. The picture: looks odd to me but I'm not knowledgable about such things. I can feel sympathy for any people who have to suffer the horrors of war yet many of these people brought this upon themselves. IMO no aid for Islamic nations. Its a waste of our resources and counter productive because the vast majority of them hate the west. Let the Saudis do the heavy lifting.

Posted by: Angel with a sword at February 26, 2014 11:02 AM (hpgw1)

217 krakatoa as a just people. as a society that has clear policy in whatever part of the world. I'm not saying do anything in syria, as both assad and mb are contemptable . But that we just seem to float along shoes dropping from east to everywhere and we seem to have no direction or coherant policy. in our country or outside of it.

Posted by: willow at February 26, 2014 11:02 AM (nqBYe)

218

So I guess some of you think the picture is staged or doctored. Does that mean you don't think there's a war going on in Syria? Because usually, you know, large-scale armed conflicts cause non-combatants to move en masse away from war zones. These refugrees can number in the thousands or even tens of thousands. Is it beyond the realm of possibility, then, that someone with a camera took a picture of these refugees?

 

Some of you are also implying or saying outright that most or all of the people pictured are Muslims, some probably radical Muslims, and therefore undeserving of sympathy. I can't make out any kids in that picture but I see lots of women and can discern a few old people sprinkled here and there. No sympathy for them, is that right? 

 

Maybe thinking too much about politics makes people view suffering in far-off places as an abstraction, a talking point on a news show. It sucks the humanity right out of you.

Posted by: troyriser at February 26, 2014 11:02 AM (V9ol4)

219 Those people need a union.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 11:02 AM (6bMeY)

220 Strangely, Mahmood's Rib Shack was still empty.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2014 11:02 AM (/o+xv)

221 His first television show has only been on the air for three days, but Ronan Farrow is already winning awards for his journalistic work.

Did Chelsea Clinton get an award for her gripping interview of the Geico Gecko?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 26, 2014 11:02 AM (4QSOR)

222 I wonder what side of the red line they're standing on?

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at February 26, 2014 11:03 AM (R5UOB)

223 207 HR, It also takes as a matter of faith the spigots haven't made the game useless. I get it their innate poverty makes them noble. We're getting a lot of honor too then....arguably 17 trillion units worth.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 11:03 AM (TE35l)

224 If it's any solace we're headed that way w/in 50 years imho.
Well "in fairness" more like Ciudad Juarez.Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 03:00 PM (TE35l)

Oh my, just announced on the radio that Texas' gay marriage ban was struck down by a judge, stay in place.  IT BEGINS. We might look like the above sooner than you think Sven.

Posted by: LizLem at February 26, 2014 11:03 AM (BF+2f)

225 Forget it, Jake. It's Palestine-a Town.

Posted by: Lawrence Walsh at February 26, 2014 11:04 AM (DLu2s)

226 Here is video from Reuter's entitled-- U.N> on the ground in Yarmouk Camp, Syria: http://news.yahoo.com/video/un-ground-yarmouk-camp-syria-014556806.html

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 11:04 AM (RJMhd)

227 Foghorn Leghorn, The red line disappeared when SCOAMF didnÂ’t do anything once that imaginary line was crossed.

Posted by: Carol at February 26, 2014 11:04 AM (z4WKX)

228 @200 Why are you praying for Palestinian jihad I trash?

Posted by: Pal is are trash at February 26, 2014 11:04 AM (JLKJJ)

229 I feel the same way, NDH. Really sad. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 02:57 PM (r+7wo) Me, too, regardless of how they feel about us. Like chique said, it doesn't effect my foreign policy stance on the area at all, but I feel for them. I'd take walking over the mountains of Korea with reliable water sources over walking through the completely arid Syrian desert any day. And where the hell they gonna walk to that's any better anyway?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 11:05 AM (Pfvig)

230 so. iran/russia will control syria, libya building another hegemony .. ect or saud's? place bets .

Posted by: willow at February 26, 2014 11:05 AM (nqBYe)

231 219 Those people need a union. Or a Chik-Fil-A

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at February 26, 2014 11:05 AM (R5UOB)

232 In this case we may have something that is fake but accurate.

Posted by: eman at February 26, 2014 11:06 AM (Mjxo5)

233 I'll admit I enjoyed schlepping around europe looking at all the damage left from WW2 and reminding myself how good we have it.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 11:06 AM (6Nj7A)

234 This Just In:  When asked about Syria, President Obama broke wind and made some obscure Caddyshack reference about waterfowl.

Posted by: Fritz at February 26, 2014 11:06 AM (PnMCP)

235 What, you mean they should hop in their non-existent cars and drive them over bombed out streets through hundreds of miles of war zone? Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 02:55 PM (SY2Kh) That's what the Christians did, with some...motivation.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 26, 2014 11:06 AM (36Rjy)

236 Can you imagine the Carbon footprint they will leave?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 11:07 AM (6bMeY)

237 Syrian refugees will be killed at the border by Turks. Jordan doesn't want them either. They have a huge problem with the Palis. Israel bombed the Lebanese border yesterday. And they wont get in to Israel Turks are firing on them. Cant get in there Hard pressed to figure out where they can go

Posted by: thunderb at February 26, 2014 11:07 AM (zOTsN)

238 Z218 troyriser, I taught Viet and Khmer refugees civics Troy. I don't see a Sally Struthers feeding area there, I see another Jihadi shithole Giggles and McCain want to send my wife to and try to get their WW3 on. I'll care about the ME when they care about their kids more than the goat warbling.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 11:08 AM (TE35l)

239 237 Putin land?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 11:08 AM (6bMeY)

240 Why are you praying for Palestinian jihad I trash? *** I feel no compunction to defend my prayers to you or anyone else.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 11:08 AM (DmNpO)

241 they border Turkey, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan no way they get in any of those countries Lebanon may be the best bet, but the border is being bombed

Posted by: thunderb at February 26, 2014 11:10 AM (zOTsN)

242

We should always remember: It can be worse. It is worse in most of the world; it has been worse for most of human history.

 

 

This is why it's called American Exceptionalism.

 

Because we    have been and  (amazingly)   continue to be the exception    to    what was always perceived as The Rule.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 11:11 AM (4df7R)

243 This why I read zombie books to cheer up.

Posted by: eman at February 26, 2014 11:11 AM (Mjxo5)

244 These lovely people celebrate the death of every Jew and American - call the founding of the State of Israel the "Nakba" or tragedy.

Last May on Pali TV a Syrian girl was quoted, "“If only, Allah, if only You had left me [in Palestine] and let me be a potential Palestinian Martyr (Shahid).”

Lovely people indeed.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at February 26, 2014 11:11 AM (KQp38)

245 SmartPower! has left wreckage around the world.  I wonder if any Leftards have made the connection.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 26, 2014 11:11 AM (8ZskC)

246 A Syrian website says Damascus is the oldest continually inhabited city in the world. It's the city Saul was traveling to when confronted by the risen Christ, and converted. He became the Apostle Paul. Ananias took him in and baptized him there, I believe. Syria is home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. What a tragedy.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2014 11:12 AM (oMKp3)

247 In this case we may have something that is fake but accurate. Posted by: eman at February 26, 2014 03:06 PM (Mjxo5) That's what I think. I don't think they faked it for effect, I think they just cleaned it up and poorly patched things together afterwards. There's giant head right in the middle of the pic and the back of the shot looks like CGI in a movie.... I don't think they faked the people, but when you alter things for better contrast and such, you lose other details, too.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 11:12 AM (Pfvig)

248

Should we start to refer to our undocumented Mexican inhabitants as Mexican refugees ?

 

And keep them in 'camps' for 50 years ?

 

 

But who would do our lawns and clean our houses ?

 

 

   

Posted by: McCool at February 26, 2014 11:13 AM (nCSwS)

249 Berlin 1945

Posted by: the littl shyning man at February 26, 2014 11:13 AM (SjrgM)

250 Posted by: troyriser at February 26, 2014 03:02 PM (V9ol4) How dare you try and tell the truth about the lying liars in the lying MFM? And defending Muzzies too. For shame! We must pretend that doctored, "Fake but accurate" photos are real, just like the Progs do. Why should we have integrity? Why should we care about the truth? //sarc off

Posted by: Citizen X at February 26, 2014 11:13 AM (7ObY1)

251 Maybe thinking too much about politics makes people view suffering in far-off places as an abstraction, a talking point on a news show. It sucks the humanity right out of you. Posted by: troyriser at February 26, 2014 03:02 PM (V9ol4) This hasn't a thing to do with politics, but past experience. And, as someone who has family in a third-world country which has repeatedly suffered from Jihadist attacks, you'll forgive me if I resist being guilt-tripped about being suspicious of the photo.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 26, 2014 11:13 AM (36Rjy)

252 All I am saying is that it is not as easy to flee as you think their brothers in jihad and islam want nothing to do with them

Posted by: thunderb at February 26, 2014 11:13 AM (zOTsN)

253 107 LindaFell, Correct my belief in the US as "worldcop" pretty much ended when the US rewarded the democrats for undermining it under Bush. Give a fuck for the world's woes? Plumb out. No more brushfire wars.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 11:13 AM (TE35l)

254 Lovely people indeed.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at February 26, 2014 03:11 PM (KQp3

 

 

Remember that there are probably a fair few Christians in that crowd.      They have no one there to speak   for them.   

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 11:13 AM (4df7R)

255 These "refugees" have no desire to leave. Cause they think they are gonna win. They plant to overthrow Assad, install an Islamic State, and use the new Islamic State of Syria to spread jihad and overthrow more countries. They want your food and money, but they have no intention of leaving.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 11:14 AM (ZPrif)

256 I actually only intended to make a cynical joke referencing prior faked photos, but I seem to have started a Snipe Hunt.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2014 11:14 AM (/FnUH)

257 hy are you praying for Palestinian jihad I trash? *** I feel no compunction to defend my prayers to you or anyone else. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 03:08 PM (DmNpO) Jesus Christ in Matthew 5: 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 11:14 AM (r+7wo)

258 Uh oh.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 11:14 AM (r+7wo)

259 Neidermeyer i am also torn.. but i remembered why.. In that hour the ministering angels wished to utter the song [of praise] before the Holy One, blessed be He, but He rebuked them, saying: My handiwork [the Egyptians] is drowning in the sea; would ye utter song before me?” (Sanhedrin 39:2 and elsewhere).

Posted by: willow at February 26, 2014 11:14 AM (nqBYe)

260 Yeah, keep telling us we aren't human and lack humanity. Keep fucking that chicken.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 11:15 AM (ZPrif)

261 Just watched the video posted by Tasker. I don't think any street would be wide enough to accommodate the number of people shown in that pic. The pic has 20 to 30 wide. Doesn't mean I feel any less sympathy for the children and non participant adults who are suffering.

Posted by: See You Next Tuesday at February 26, 2014 11:15 AM (DAevm)

262 One of these days the media --like CNN who hires a guy like Piers Morgan --who faked photos of Brit soldiers committing torture--will rue the day they lost their credibility. The gave Piers Morgan--who did that a prime time spot on their network.

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 11:15 AM (RJMhd)

263 I don't think the photo is fake because it doesn't make the U.S. or Israel look bad.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 26, 2014 11:15 AM (oFCZn)

264 237 thunderb, I have a few ideas... //General Momjeans

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 11:15 AM (TE35l)

265 It's an awesome picture. Food prices are low but there's no Walmart!

Posted by: Teh Left at February 26, 2014 11:16 AM (FcR7P)

266 Phew. Evaded the barrel thus far and intend to continue to do so as I am fairly picky about my surroundings and unsure of the hygiene habits of previous prisoners.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 11:16 AM (r+7wo)

267 anyway that commentary was in relation to the plagues and wooping of the egyptians for their conduct.

Posted by: willow at February 26, 2014 11:16 AM (nqBYe)

268

218 troyriser: I have no doubt that Assad's forces have committed atrocities, nor that his opponents have done the same although likely not at the same scale- due mainly to lack of opportunity and resources. Like Sherman said, war is hell.  I'm a skeptic on pictures like this. Is it really in Damascus? Is it really today? Is the crowd really that big? Give me some proof.

 "large-scale armed conflicts cause non-combatants to move en masse away from war zones. " True. The way I read the story this is in the middle of a war zone. Hard to believe that many people are left there.  

Yes, we should do what we can to alleviate suffering, regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, etc. We should also try to make sure that any funds we donate to a charity go where we think they are going, rather than into someone's pockets.   

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at February 26, 2014 11:16 AM (ic0lh)

269 It should also be a call to note that this is the kind of human misery that can result from the lack of freedom and democracy while under the boot of a tyrant, even the tyrant you know.

Posted by: deadrody at February 26, 2014 11:16 AM (b2D8X)

270

Just watched the video posted by Tasker. I don't think any street would be wide enough to accommodate the number of people shown in that pic. The pic has 20 to 30 wide.

 

Please note that many of them appear to be standing on the rubble of the bombed out buildings around them.

 

I'm not saying it's real, but I'm not seeing anything that would immediately prompt me to believe otherwise.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 11:16 AM (4df7R)

271 I'd rather concentrate on the fact that our own government is killing people with Obamacare and kids are being stolen from their parents and slowly murdered by neanderthal bureaucrats.

I'd say subhuman, but that's implied, isn't it?


Posted by: grognard at February 26, 2014 11:16 AM (/29Nl)

272 It must be fake. Moslems love the Palestinians and would never let this happen to them. /sarc

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 26, 2014 11:17 AM (Eiwo7)

273 266 Phew. Evaded the barrel thus far and intend to continue to do so as I am fairly picky about my surroundings and unsure of the hygiene habits of previous prisoners. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 03:16 PM (r+7wo) Nice save. Bannion was in there for at least a day so I would say conditions inside the barrel are...sketchy.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 26, 2014 11:17 AM (oFCZn)

274 Flatbush Joe that is not true in the beginning thousand were trying to flee into Turkey Turks knew a goodly number of them were ethnic Kurds, and they have no intention of increasing their Kurdish population The Turkish Army is planted on the border, and they have been firing missiles into Syria for as long as this has been going on They want to get in to Turkey many have family in Turkey Turkey is not having it

Posted by: thunderb at February 26, 2014 11:17 AM (zOTsN)

275 255 Flatbush Joe, Now translate that to Spanish. La Raza 2016-why not?

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 11:17 AM (TE35l)

276 If this photo is supposed to make me give a shit, which is exactly its purpose, it's not working.

Posted by: Soothie at February 26, 2014 11:17 AM (9WnL1)

277 Chique: Biblical love is three types: agape, phileo, and eros. Eros is for married couples. Being suspicious of the photo does not violate either of the other two.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 26, 2014 11:17 AM (36Rjy)

278 I feel bad for children born in jihadi breeding grounds. But once that child grows up to be a jihadi I have no more sympathy. I don't feel bad for all women just cause they are women. If a woman chooses to indoctrinate her children in jihad and Islamic supremacism then that woman is my enemy.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 11:18 AM (ZPrif)

279 Don't be surprised if they drag out the ol Assad Used Chemical Weapons bullshit, again, too.

Posted by: Soothie at February 26, 2014 11:18 AM (9WnL1)

280 I smell Paliwood.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 11:18 AM (6bMeY)

281 Meanwhile, at another disaster zone:

EPA Officials Obstructed Fraud Investigation
"EPA employees threatened Inspector General investigators, refused to cooperate, and handed out non-disclosure agreements to other employees to keep them from being interviewed, EPA Inspector General Arthur Elkins Jr. wrote in response to a request for information by Vitter on the case."

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at February 26, 2014 11:18 AM (xrX4n)

282 A couple of weeks ago on Frontline (yes PBS, fuck off) they had a powerful documentary on how three or four little gils and their family are dealing with the war. It is a must watch.

Posted by: knat78 at February 26, 2014 11:19 AM (1GMns)

283 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 26, 2014 03:16 PM (4df7R) Fair comment but after watching the video that even does not seem possible to me.

Posted by: See You Next Tuesday at February 26, 2014 11:19 AM (DAevm)

284 I've seen public opinion surveys of Palestinian refugees. The support for jihad and violent Islamic supremacism is an overwhelming majority.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 11:20 AM (ZPrif)

285 Eros is for married couples. Being suspicious of the photo does not violate either of the other two. Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 26, 2014 03:17 PM (36Rjy) Hi baldi. I have no idea whether the pic is real or not (not an expert on these things) and have no problem with questioning its authenticity given past behavior of certain news orgs. I'm just reacting to certain comments and saying that just because they hate us (which we don't know for sure about those in the pics anyway) doesn't mean we have to hate them back. Not hating them isn't a sign of weakness.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 11:20 AM (r+7wo)

286 Assume for a moment, if you will, that the photo is real.


So What.

These people hate us and everything we stand for.  Zero interest in what happens to them.  No amount of freebie twinkies is going to change that.  Not a bit.  They are ONLY about what they can get.  Never a thought about what they could have. 


Posted by: trainer's looking for a Militia to join... at February 26, 2014 11:20 AM (n4ArD)

287 Wow--Turkey--the thought of the change or vector away from Ataturk occurring there gives me- acid reflux.

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 11:20 AM (RJMhd)

288 unsure of the hygiene habits of previous prisoners. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 03:16 PM (r+7wo) Oh, there's nothing at all to be unsure about, dear one. Your every suspicion is true!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 11:21 AM (Pfvig)

289 A couple of weeks ago on Frontline (yes PBS, fuck off) they had a powerful documentary on how three or four little gils and their family are dealing with the war. It is a must watch. ** They occasionally knock it out of the park. You just have to enter each episode with a skeptical eye.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 11:21 AM (DmNpO)

290 Caption: Never start a coup you cannot finish

Posted by: Soothie at February 26, 2014 11:22 AM (9WnL1)

291 Like when Turkey arrested 40 of their midlevel field grade Air Force officers? That. Holy mukka.

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 11:22 AM (RJMhd)

292 Looks an awful lot like Detroit.

Posted by: Jrr at February 26, 2014 11:23 AM (BdVar)

293 I actually only intended to make a cynical joke referencing prior faked photos, but I seem to have started a Snipe Hunt.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2014 03:14 PM (/FnUH)

 

 

I don't know that it's really a Snipe Hunt, ace.  A Snipe Hunt would imply there's nothing there   to find,  but we know that Palestinians are not averse to photo manipulation and digital trickery.     Healthy skepticism is reasonable.

 

That said, I think this is real.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 11:23 AM (4df7R)

294 Where is Saint Assad with the coup de grace?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 11:23 AM (6bMeY)

295 I'm just reacting to certain comments and saying that just because they hate us (which we don't know for sure about those in the pics anyway) doesn't mean we have to hate them back. Not hating them isn't a sign of weakness. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 03:20 PM (r+7wo) Understood and thanks. And your old country gets more attack from jihadists than my father's country does. I don't hate them. I feel nothing for them really.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 26, 2014 11:23 AM (36Rjy)

296 Actually I think they tossed some generals in there too. Jeez I need a hooka stat!

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 11:24 AM (RJMhd)

297 Looks like something out of the Bible.

Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2014 11:24 AM (GXZgZ)

298 These people hate us and everything we stand for. Zero interest in what happens to them. No amount of freebie twinkies is going to change that. Not a bit. They are ONLY about what they can get. Never a thought about what they could have.


Posted by: trainer's looking for a Militia to join... at February 26, 2014 03:20 PM (n4ArD)

 

 

Yes, but the point isn't to say, "Oh, poor people, we should help them."

 

The point is to say, "Fuck, I'm glad     I live here   and    that's not me."

 

Although in Obammy's America, that should be   followed by,  "Yet."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 11:24 AM (4df7R)

299 these photos seem to show the same number of people, as tasker says: http://www.unrwa.org/galleries/photos/distribution-food-parcels-yarmouk

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2014 11:24 AM (/FnUH)

300 I think its horrible and I hate to see people suffering and I know they would prolly happily cut my head off after raping me and them hang my headless body in the town square I chose not to be them and I think this is a problem the Islamic world should deal with. but as I said, their neighbors, fellow travelers all, want nothing to do with them hold them responsible in part for this mess Israel has secret flights to Ethiopia to rescue ancient tribal Jews there but Jordan wont make the Palestinians citizens, and keeps them in refugee camps. Because if they did, the monarchy would fall. they talk a good game, but they do nothing for each other nothing

Posted by: thunderb at February 26, 2014 11:24 AM (zOTsN)

301 The problem is this is a war between Assad = evil, Hezbollah = evil, AQ = evil, and a small assortment of liberals (small l) and Christians. So, the obvious best way to help them would be to allow the Christians and small l liberals to have asylum, and let the others slug it out. Only thing, how could you be sure who you saved were not infiltrators.

Posted by: sexypig at February 26, 2014 11:25 AM (dZQh7)

302 They ain't my kin.

Posted by: Soothie at February 26, 2014 11:25 AM (9WnL1)

303 @218 troyriser Would it make me a better person to have sympathy for people I will not lift a finger to help? Help is impossible. In case nobody has been keeping score for 1,400 years, their official position (held by women and children as well) is that we are the "hated other". Only Muslims sufficiently Islamic deserve to live in their worldview. Go to MEMRI and watch some of their women and chidren chanting for our deaths. Sure, as a philosophical exercise I wish any innocent people or good people would get help. But not if that means importing more of their toxic ideology around innocent people I know personally.

Posted by: Beagle at February 26, 2014 11:25 AM (sOtz/)

304 285 chique d'afrique, Obama is getting away with what he is b/c too many Americans refuse to hate evil comfortably. Same thing here, if those people reap the just rewards of their Jihad eventually they'll plant less bitter fruit.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 11:25 AM (TE35l)

305 Actually I should fess up--I've hated Assads since it was Daddy in there.

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 11:26 AM (RJMhd)

306 I feel bad for innocents in that picture. Just not clear how many innocents there are in that picture. Some, I'm sure. I feel bad for the kids when some jihadi's home gets blown up and a young kid gets taken out. I also recognize that kid was, most likely, gonna grow up and choose to be a jihadi. It wasn't a guarantee, though. You don't lack humanity for seeing both the suffering and the evil. I can see a WW2 picture of Nazi prisoners of war and both feel for their physical suffering and recognize they are still Nazis who chose evil. Someone who points out they are still Nazis doesn't lack humanity.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 26, 2014 11:26 AM (ZPrif)

307 Caption: We hated Assad so much that we made our lives worse and destroyed our homes.

Posted by: Soothie at February 26, 2014 11:26 AM (9WnL1)

308 Understood and thanks. And your old country gets more attack from jihadists than my father's country does. Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 26, 2014 03:23 PM (36Rjy) Yep. Fortunately for my family and friends, the terrorists have kept themselves to the majority Muslim north. I wonder what would happen if they moved south. Not sure we southerners would just sit there and take it. And my comments above don't mean that I would shed a tear if all the terrorists were suddenly vaporized in a not-too-comfortable way, just as I shed no tears for bin Laden. Love demands justice.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 11:27 AM (r+7wo)

309 I don't hate them. I feel nothing for them really.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 26, 2014 03:23 PM (36Rjy)

 

I certaintly want them to stay there.

 

islam is incompatable with western civ.

 

Untill the 1950-60's islam and the west had borders or sorts.

 

With multi-culti immigration polocies the camels nose is way inside the tent

Posted by: The Obvious Sock at February 26, 2014 11:27 AM (q+zA9)

310 This is a so called Palestinian refugee camp. "Refugee", being a hereditary title these young men were passed from their grandparents. The camp became divided upon itself when some of it's residents took arms against Assad in the ranks of Al Qaeda, while others, mainly Marxists, stood by Assad's side. And this is the result. It also shows you that Israeli occupation is the sole reason the poor Palis are bein' all poor and oppressed pretty much everywhere.

Posted by: Aristotle at February 26, 2014 11:27 AM (s5l1P)

311 @ 240 If you want to pay for terror supporters thats on you. Don't act like you care when your Muslim buddies kill people.

Posted by: Palis are trasho at February 26, 2014 11:27 AM (JLKJJ)

312 Yeah my  pity-ometer  seems to be pegged at "nada".

Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2014 11:28 AM (GXZgZ)

313 300 ThunderB, The Jorgyptians? Yeah, I think is goat warbler business.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 11:28 AM (TE35l)

314 Also, lefties should look long and hard at this photo. If you don't want a civil war in America, then it might be wise to make sure the right does not feel disenfranchised by stonewalling the IRS stuff.

Posted by: sexypig at February 26, 2014 11:28 AM (dZQh7)

315 Do they have an HD version suitable for wallpaper?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 11:29 AM (6bMeY)

316 @247 Why do you Carr about these savages that would behead you? You are really an ignorant fool.

Posted by: Palis are trasho at February 26, 2014 11:29 AM (JLKJJ)

317

@ 240



If you want to pay for terror supporters thats on you. Don't act like you care when your Muslim buddies kill people.

 

Posted by: Palis are trasho at February 26, 2014 03:27 PM (JLKJJ)

 

 

Critiquing the content of another person's prayers?    You must be from the IRS.

 

Fuck   you.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 11:29 AM (4df7R)

318 It also shows you that Israeli occupation is the sole reason the poor Palis are bein' all poor and oppressed pretty much everywhere.

---

Please tell me you intended a sarc tag at the end of that statement.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 26, 2014 11:29 AM (nELVU)

319 285 chique d'afrique, Obama is getting away with what he is b/c too many Americans refuse to hate evil comfortably. Same thing here, if those people reap the just rewards of their Jihad eventually they'll plant less bitter fruit. Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 03:25 PM (TE35l) Hating evil and hating individuals is not the same thing. I am a huge proponent of hating evil. Love requires hating evil. 1 Cor 13:6: Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 11:29 AM (r+7wo)

320

Hector, is that you?   You racist scamp you!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 11:30 AM (4df7R)

321 Here's the thing about the Cold War--Kissinger had this whole hypothesis--hell--call it theory that the Cold War by necessity kept the conflict in the Middle East tamped down.

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 11:30 AM (RJMhd)

322 WE WANT BRIAN!

Posted by: 315 Comments To Get To 'Life Of Brian'?? at February 26, 2014 11:31 AM (DLu2s)

323 Now that both Super Powers ain't so super....

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 11:32 AM (RJMhd)

324 Brian killed the thread?

Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2014 11:32 AM (VhqUZ)

325 You have to guess that at least 30% of those people are apolitical or want a liberal democracy and are not into an Islamic state. Those are the people to really feel for. The people who were just minding their own business.

Posted by: sexypig at February 26, 2014 11:32 AM (dZQh7)

326 Hey Ace, tell it to Vogue!

They say Syria is all glamorous and shit.

http://tinyurl.com/VogueAssad


Posted by: scottst at February 26, 2014 11:32 AM (idA6q)

327 If you don't want a civil war in America, then it might be wise to make sure the right does not feel disenfranchised by stonewalling the IRS stuff. There's not even the slightest chance of a civil war over the IRS scandal. Or any other scandal in the foreseeable future.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 11:32 AM (SY2Kh)

328 324 Brian killed the thread?  

Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2014 03:32 PM (VhqUZ)

 

 

Or did the thread kill Brian?

 

 

Find out on next week's episode of    "Family Guy!"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 11:33 AM (4df7R)

329 Why do you Carr about these savages that would behead you? You are really an ignorant fool. Posted by: Palis are trasho at February 26, 2014 03:29 PM (JLKJJ) They will know we are Christians by our love. If that makes me an ignorant fool, I wear the title proudly.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 11:34 AM (Pfvig)

330 OT honest question:  I'm confused about Slate and Salon.  I know one is stupid and one is flamingly stupid, but I don't want to award clicks to either.  Please let me know which the flamingly stupid one is?  I thank you.

Posted by: Filly at February 26, 2014 11:34 AM (gr/p1)

331 319 Chique D'Afrique, Quite, engaging their allies ruthlessly when needed is a matter of love for the human amongst them. I'd happily feed them, develop humint, and Dr. Bull the bad actors amongst them. I'm old school that way, but what I won't do is further empower SCOAMF to aid radical Islam again.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 11:34 AM (TE35l)

332 Now for news that most of America really cares about:

Katy Perry ditches John Mayer, spotted at local pharmacy

Posted by: grognard at February 26, 2014 11:34 AM (/29Nl)

333 The UN pics poster by Tasker convince me even more that posted photo was doctored. Again that opinion does not mean I do not feel the appropriate sympathy for the innocent.

Posted by: See You Next Tuesday at February 26, 2014 11:35 AM (DAevm)

334 "Thank you founding fathers for giving us a system of goernment so good it took the bastards 225 years to figure out how to fuck it up." Nah, they pretty much had it fucked up by the late 1860s.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 26, 2014 11:35 AM (8T0N0)

335 [iOT honest question: I'm confused about Slate and Salon. I know one is stupid and one is flamingly stupid, but I don't want to award clicks to either. Please let me know which the flamingly stupid one is? I thank you.

Posted by: Filly at February 26, 2014 03:34 PM (gr/p1) [/i]

 

 

They trade the title back and forth,   to be honest.   

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 11:35 AM (4df7R)

336 Stupidity is in the eye of the beholder Filly, most stupid is Salon IMHO

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 26, 2014 11:35 AM (HVff2)

337 This post would've been a lot funnier if under the title was a pic of Seymour Philip Hoffman The London Boys.

Posted by: Soothie at February 26, 2014 11:35 AM (9WnL1)

338 Palestinians are the trash of humanity. If these people died of mass staration the human gen pool would improve.

Posted by: Palis are trash at February 26, 2014 11:35 AM (JLKJJ)

339 If you people had LISTENED to me, this wouldn't have happened!

Oh, wait, you people DID listen to me and this is why it happened. Sorry. I'll just go back to being dead now.

Posted by: Yassir Arafat at February 26, 2014 11:35 AM (DLu2s)

340 (JLKJJ)

Moby alert

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 26, 2014 11:35 AM (8ZskC)

341 316 @247 Why do you Carr about these savages that would behead you? You are really an ignorant fool. Posted by: Palis are trasho at February 26, 2014 03:29 PM (JLKJJ) You know? When insulting someone here, it's best to be sure to reference the correct comment. Spell-checking is a good idea also. Just trying to help.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 26, 2014 11:36 AM (36Rjy)

342 329 Tammy Al-Thor, I'd prefer they knew we were Chritians by our allowing Israel to kill as many as it takes for peace...but that's just me.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 11:36 AM (TE35l)

343 Anyone remember the stuffed animal that was always in these pics of ruin in the middle east?

Posted by: Soothie at February 26, 2014 11:36 AM (9WnL1)

344 Moby alert

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 26, 2014 03:35 PM (8ZskC)

 

 

Pretty sure it's Hector or one of the other     immovable fungii that crop up around here.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 11:36 AM (4df7R)

345 The problem with all of this "are any of them innocents" thread is that we're 300+ in, only one Life of Brian joke an no boobehs at all.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at February 26, 2014 11:37 AM (A0sHn)

346 They will know we are Christians by our love. If that makes me an ignorant fool, I wear the title proudly. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 03:34 PM (Pfvig) Yep, see Jesus' words in my comment @257. Being Christlike involves not giving in to lots of aspects of human nature. It's not easy, and I often forget about it, sad to say.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 11:37 AM (r+7wo)

347 Oh...is John Mayer still a thing?

Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2014 11:37 AM (GXZgZ)

348 @247 Why do you Carr about these savages that would behead you? You are really an ignorant fool. Posted by: Palis are trasho cause I'm not an animal fucktard

Posted by: thunderb at February 26, 2014 11:37 AM (zOTsN)

349 There's not even the slightest chance of a civil war over the IRS scandal. Or any other scandal in the foreseeable future. Define "foreseeable future". Possibles: Mid term elections not happening? Barky not leaving after 2016/2017?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2014 11:37 AM (CRyse)

350 Well, a bit further south, when the settlers abandoned Gush Kativ, the left the means to grow and export crops intact.  The Palis decided the best use would be to destroy the entire area and use it to launch rockets into Israel.

The Apple of God's Eye

http://tinyurl.com/bw2snpw

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at February 26, 2014 11:37 AM (KQp38)

351 253 107 LindaFell,

Correct my belief in the US as "worldcop" pretty much ended when the US rewarded the democrats for undermining it under Bush.

Give a fuck for the world's woes?

Plumb out.

No more brushfire wars. Posted by: sven10077

I'm with you on that. Screw the rest of the world. At the risk of sounding Paulish, withdraw to fortress America and ignore the world and its troubles.

Posted by: backhoe at February 26, 2014 11:37 AM (ULH4o)

352 Ooh, I know how to figure out if it's (Eimoe).   Start talking about the Ukraine!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 11:38 AM (4df7R)

353 No. Wall Street Journal ‏@WSJ 45s Breaking: U.S. considering $1 billion in loan guarantees for Ukraine, Kerry says. http://wsj.com

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 11:38 AM (DmNpO)

354 ItÂ’s only sheer luck or maybe fate that we here on the blog were born here. === Yeah. I was once talking with a Chinese colleague at work, and he told me he had two children. I asked him if the kids were both Chinese, and he said yeah, why? I told him that one out of four children born in the world was Chinese, and he beat the odds.

Posted by: whoever at February 26, 2014 11:38 AM (kGSN0)

355 Palestinians are the trash of humanity. If these people died of mass staration the human gen pool would improve. Something tells me that your own gene pool is missing a chromosome or two.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 11:38 AM (SY2Kh)

356 Thanks guys!

Posted by: Filly at February 26, 2014 11:38 AM (gr/p1)

357 327 hllowpoint, Nor just government living within the rule of law and limited by the Constitution. Thanks GOP!

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 11:39 AM (TE35l)

358 Wall Street Journal þ@WSJ 45s
Breaking: U.S. considering $1 billion in loan guarantees for Ukraine, Kerry says. http://wsj.com

 

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 03:38 PM (DmNpO)

 

 

 

So THAT'S where that commissary money is going.

 

 

Fucking Horseface.   Choke on a mouthful of stale oats, you bastard.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 11:39 AM (4df7R)

359 340 (JLKJJ) Moby alert Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 26, 2014 03:35 PM (8ZskC) Indeed.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 26, 2014 11:39 AM (36Rjy)

360 I'm with you on that. Screw the rest of the world. At the risk of sounding Paulish, withdraw to fortress America and ignore the world and its troubles. Posted by: backhoe at February 26, 2014 03:37 PM (ULH4o) ************ Think of America as a plane-- don't overcorrect. Although certain pilots don't get that analogy--like that dude that flew across the Atlantic.

Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 11:39 AM (RJMhd)

361 Oh...is John Mayer still a thing?

Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2014 03:37 PM (GXZgZ)



Considering he's nailed nearly every hot piece of ass in the entertainment industry, apparently so.

Posted by: grognard at February 26, 2014 11:40 AM (/29Nl)

362 Something tells me that your own gene pool is missing a chromosome or two.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 03:38 PM (SY2Kh)


----


nah.... he dived in the shallow end and bonked his knoggin...

Posted by: fixerupper at February 26, 2014 11:40 AM (nELVU)

363
It's not Muslims.  It's Islam.  And it's evil.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 26, 2014 11:40 AM (BZAd3)

364 353 No. Wall Street Journal þ@WSJ 45s Breaking: U.S. considering $1 billion in loan guarantees for Ukraine, Kerry says. http://wsj.com Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 03:38 PM (DmNpO Why don't we just write out one big check to the world? John F-ing Kerry, he's the bomb.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 26, 2014 11:40 AM (HVff2)

365 Wi Tu Low's employer is on the hook for a $500,000 fine.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 11:41 AM (6bMeY)

366 343 soothie, Bert goes to Jihad... Elmo goes refugee.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 11:41 AM (TE35l)

367 Something tells me that your own gene pool is missing a chromosome or two. Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 03:38 PM

Drive-by troll used to call himself titanium.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at February 26, 2014 11:41 AM (KQp38)

368

Considering he's nailed nearly every hot piece of ass in the entertainment industry, apparently so.

 

He can never have 1976 Jessica Lange!

Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2014 11:42 AM (GXZgZ)

369 353 No. Wall Street Journal ‏@WSJ 45s Breaking: U.S. considering $1 billion in loan guarantees for Ukraine, Kerry says. http://wsj.com Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 03:38 PM (DmNpO) It's as if they're doing everything they can to accelerate the collapse of the dollar.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 26, 2014 11:42 AM (36Rjy)

370 withdraw to fortress America and ignore the world and its troubles

Ah, that will work out well.

Posted by: Subs sinking ships off America's coasts in '42 at February 26, 2014 11:42 AM (Dwehj)

371 Nood.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2014 11:42 AM (6bMeY)

372 blurred lines brunette strikes again

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ 2014/02/26/break-time-emily-ratajkowski-does-what-does-best-gets-undressed/

Posted by: grognard at February 26, 2014 11:42 AM (/29Nl)

373 " There's not even the slightest chance of a civil war over the IRS scandal. Or any other scandal in the foreseeable future." Sure...if they keep auditing political enemies and people begin to fear the government is clamping down on free speech there won't be any problems at all. A republic...if you can keep it.

Posted by: sexypig at February 26, 2014 11:42 AM (dZQh7)

374 Define "foreseeable future". Possibles: Mid term elections not happening? Barky not leaving after 2016/2017? Neither of those two scenarios are going to happen. The chances are low enough to be considered zero. The various Apocalypse Fantasies suggesting a civil war and/or Obama refusing to leave office after 2016 sound no less insane than the loony predictions by the left that GWB was going to turn the country into an authoritarian theocracy.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 26, 2014 11:43 AM (SY2Kh)

375 nood droom

Posted by: Soothie at February 26, 2014 11:43 AM (9WnL1)

376 The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine.

Posted by: Cosmo Putin at February 26, 2014 11:43 AM (tv7DV)

377 Think of America as a plane-- don't overcorrect. Although certain pilots don't get that analogy--like that dude that flew across the Atlantic. Posted by: tasker at February 26, 2014 03:39 PM (RJMhd) Did you see the movie 'Flight?'

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 26, 2014 11:43 AM (36Rjy)

378 It is funny seeing people on this website defend the human trash called Palestinians. Ask the Israelis about these roaches.

Posted by: Palis are trash at February 26, 2014 11:44 AM (JLKJJ)

379 Wi Tu Low's employer is on the hook for a $500,000 fine.

Whew.

Posted by: Sum Ting Wong at February 26, 2014 11:44 AM (Dwehj)

380 Blut und Boden.

Posted by: Darth Putin at February 26, 2014 11:44 AM (6bMeY)

381 >>Something tells me that your own gene pool is missing a chromosome or two. Not enough chlorine.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2014 11:44 AM (g1DWB)

382 Just saw this on Fox:
Louis Lerner refuses to come back to testify without immunity or a court order. 

I guess a smidgen doesn't go as far as it used to...

Posted by: b at February 26, 2014 11:44 AM (5OEha)

383 I'd prefer they knew we were Chritians by our allowing Israel to kill as many as it takes for peace...but that's just me. Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 03:36 PM (TE35l) And I wouldn't cry over that. They should have turned the entire ME to glass after September 11th, as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't mean I can't be sorry it has to happen, or feel sorry for people who are pictured above.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 11:44 AM (Pfvig)

384

Droo

 

 

 

 

::creps;;

Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2014 11:44 AM (GXZgZ)

385 we aren't defending Palis you moron

Posted by: thunderb at February 26, 2014 11:45 AM (zOTsN)

386 most Americans should be more grateful

History turns on a dime.

I'm still awe-struck by the process of Germany in the 19th century, going from being the center of the civilized world, with the highest standard of living, the most advanced system of law, the highest rate of education, and the source of a heavily-disproportionate number of scientific advancements and inventions, not to mention being the center of art and culture, with the most decentralized of all the governments in the Western world, whose kings were actually elected, in the span of a couple of generations ended up being reduced to abject poverty, starvation, war, genocide, and a totalitarian police state overseen by a dictator. 

It can happen anywhere.

Posted by: Phinn at February 26, 2014 11:45 AM (KOGmz)

387 364 misanthropic humanitarian, They're on it! A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you could afford to pay the troops.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 11:45 AM (TE35l)

388

Wi Tu Low's employer is on the hook for a $500,000 fine.

 

Ho Lee Fuk is that all?

Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2014 11:45 AM (VhqUZ)

389 nood droom Posted by: Soothie at February 26, 2014 03:43 PM (9WnL1) Droom. I like that. Drewm, pronounced "droom."

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 26, 2014 11:45 AM (r+7wo)

390 I guess a smidgen doesn't go as far as it used to...

Posted by: b at February 26, 2014 03:44 PM (5OEha)


The penalty for contempt of congress must be a lot less than the penalty for what she did.


Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 26, 2014 11:46 AM (BZAd3)

391 Considering he's nailed nearly every hot piece of ass in the entertainment industry, apparently so. And I do not get it. AT ALL. He looks greasy and smelly to me.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 11:46 AM (Pfvig)

392 my point was not to defend the Palis. My point is the ME should be on the hook for this, not us. Its THEIR responsibility to relieve this suffering dolt

Posted by: thunderb at February 26, 2014 11:46 AM (zOTsN)

393

whoops

Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2014 11:47 AM (GXZgZ)

394 Noood.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 11:47 AM (4df7R)

395 @325 More like 3 to 23%, but yes some of them would reject the insanity if that was not a stoning offense. Every poll of Palestinians, and Muslims generally, is chilling at best. Some places are better than others to be sure.

Posted by: Beagle at February 26, 2014 11:48 AM (sOtz/)

396 Im going to cheer myself up by watching the UCLA student bawl her head off about losing the divest from Israel vote her tears, they nourish me

Posted by: thunderb at February 26, 2014 11:49 AM (zOTsN)

397 And I do not get it. AT ALL. He looks greasy and smelly to me.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 03:46 PM (Pfvig)

 

And his voice is fucking AWFUL.   It's like listening to    someone with emphysema wheeze into a cheese grater.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 11:49 AM (4df7R)

398 374 HollowPoint, Right champ...as crazy as saying thay Obama reelected would use EOs to violate the rule of law and the Republic. You *are* correct be content in it b/c so were we. We live in a totalitarian oligarchy ran by a Choom King and assholes in robes. That there'll be no fight is not something to be proud of, it's collusion or acquiesence.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 11:50 AM (TE35l)

399 396 Im going to cheer myself up by watching the UCLA student bawl her head off about losing the divest from Israel vote

her tears, they nourish me

Posted by: thunderb at February 26, 2014 03:49 PM (zOTsN)


That's like swilling an ice cold one on a scorching hot day.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 26, 2014 11:50 AM (BZAd3)

400 I'm going to say something slightly out of character, and largely out of favor As Things Are, but I'm going to lay it out there anyway. The only way their lot will get any better is if they find another way to live. Let the Lord's love into their hearts, learn to let go of and reject the hate they're taught, and start building a society that isn't doomed at the foundation. No other way. I pray the Lord turn their hearts, that I know they are no longer enemies. Beyond that, I can do nothing of worth for them...and nothing worse to them than they've done to themselves.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at February 26, 2014 11:51 AM (naUcP)

401 And his voice is fucking AWFUL. It's like listening to someone with emphysema wheeze into a cheese grater.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 26, 2014 03:49 PM (4df7R)



Best.  Description.   EVER.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 26, 2014 11:51 AM (BZAd3)

402 Y'all have to remember that we have bases in areas for our convenience, too. It's not all for the sole benefit of the host country. Refueling, supply logistics, trauma hospitals, ease of striking various targets on short notice, etc. I am all for shutting some down, but we benefit greatly from many of them.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 11:52 AM (Pfvig)

403 I will say it. I support the Syrian government. They are fighting the goat fuckers. These ere the same people that are killing Christians. My kids have many Arabic Christian friends who are freaking out over what is happening in Syria. I myself have many Eastern European friends Who have relatives in Kiev who are hunkered down in their partments waiting to see what happens. And shit is stirring in Macedonia, in Albania, in Kosovo, in Serbia. You name it.Shit is stirring here as well.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at February 26, 2014 11:52 AM (Yf39f)

404 And his voice is fucking AWFUL. It's like listening to someone with emphysema wheeze into a cheese grater. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 26, 2014 03:49 PM (4df7R) RORFLMAO! SO true! He's a decent guitarist, but he's not even as good as my husband.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 26, 2014 11:54 AM (Pfvig)

405 re: cheese grater

Half of pop music today is male vocalists creating vocal affectations that are supposed to make them sound unique, but really just make them sound like autotuned Muppets.

Like that song Let Her Go.  That song is fucking hideous.

Posted by: grognard at February 26, 2014 11:58 AM (/29Nl)

406 I'm going to say something slightly out of character, and largely out of favor As Things Are, but I'm going to lay it out there anyway. The only way their lot will get any better is if they find another way to live. Let the Lord's love into their hearts, learn to let go of and reject the hate they're taught, and start building a society that isn't doomed at the foundation. No other way. I pray the Lord turn their hearts, that I know they are no longer enemies. Beyond that, I can do nothing of worth for them...and nothing worse to them than they've done to themselves. *** Amen

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 12:02 PM (DmNpO)

407 The Syrian Alawite govt is nothing more than a vassal regime of the Mullahs. They would be overrun by jihadis if not for Hizballah's divisions and Iranian "observers". Alawites are a TINY minority in Syria. They believe in godhood of Ali, and are considered kuffar by all Sunnis. They do fight like lions, since they know they would all be slaughtered in a case of defeat, but they would never be able to master the manpower needed without Iran and Hizballah

Posted by: Aristotle at February 26, 2014 12:03 PM (s5l1P)

408 There's no Messiah in here. There's a mess all right, but no Messiah.

Posted by: Brian's Mom at February 26, 2014 12:13 PM (DErq5)

409 I'm out of sympathy for anything and everything Muslim or middle Eastern except Israel. When I look at this photo, I'm wondering when the 2000 pound JDAM will work its magic on these subhuman parasites.

Posted by: Model-1066 at February 26, 2014 12:37 PM (39n7S)

410 Healthiest looking bunch of starving people I've ever seen.

Posted by: Bill Mitchell at February 26, 2014 12:39 PM (+9xNn)

411 This is partially a result of Obama/Powers/Jarrett/Rice/Hillary smart diplomacy. RESET!

Posted by: Seems legit at February 26, 2014 12:43 PM (A98Xu)

412 It is the Will of Allah.

Posted by: Allah Hates Everyone at February 26, 2014 12:52 PM (nbGZj)

413 ...but...but... Syria has no ghey marriage... let them starve... /American leftist

Posted by: fromabroad at February 26, 2014 01:00 PM (rnV3B)

414 So this is a picture of a country on year #10 of Obamacare. Hmm seems about right.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at February 26, 2014 01:01 PM (R5UOB)

415 Posted by: fromabroad at February 26, 2014 05:00 PM (rnV3B An American leftist would want to give them someone else's money, no strings attached. Because if the future suicide bombers.

Posted by: Model-1066 at February 26, 2014 01:11 PM (39n7S)

416 Faked?
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/217771.php

Posted by: AkRonin at February 26, 2014 01:20 PM (1bzkI)

417 12 Years a Slave was a good movie. Yes, it portrayed Northrup as more noble than he probably was in real life, but it showed the brutality and hopelessness of slavery and how it destroyed the souls of both slave and, even more, slave owners. Gravity was a two-hour treat for a man of my tastes. Less jiggle than Kate Upton but when the 3D Blu-Ray comes out I may just move permanently to my bunker. Or is it bunk? Either one or both, I'll be there.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit who is now Chelsea at February 26, 2014 01:21 PM (vVMIQ)

418 Dang. Wrong thread.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit who is now Chelsea at February 26, 2014 01:21 PM (vVMIQ)

419 I think it's fake. All those faces look plump, well fed and hydrated.
No one looks malnourished or war weary and traumatized in that picture. Everyone is clean and well dressed.









Posted by: BareNakedFace at February 26, 2014 01:53 PM (agH4P)

420 Thanks, ubama.

Posted by: Erowmero at February 26, 2014 02:05 PM (OONaw)

421 Occupy Syria.

Posted by: Daisycutter at February 26, 2014 02:12 PM (LyV/0)

422 Just remember most of these poor folks were likely dancing in the streets on 9-11.

Damm... they would just tear up a mosh-pit, if they did that to the street by just dancing.

FT

Posted by: Paladin at February 26, 2014 02:49 PM (DPvCq)

423 One of the more powerful and haunting photos of the Syrian war zone. How can any one of us understand the despair these poor souls must experience? I'm ashamed of my earlier complaints over a situation so petty in comparison to their suffering. The reality hammer hit this perspective home that most Americans are so damn lucky.

Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at February 26, 2014 04:36 PM (OU1Hh)

424 Photoshopped to the max.  Whenever a photo looks unreal, especially these days, it surely is.  The crowd looks composited, for effect, and the buildings behind look like they were placed there, again, for effect.  Too perfect.  I don't buy it.

Posted by: Vince at February 26, 2014 06:07 PM (McTXw)

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