Hilarious God mistake #37: oops, forgot to give any oil to the Chosen People
Why the hell have we sent a Billion in fuel to Isreal since 2004?
Not that I mind Isreal taking out Hamas, but when they are basically wiping the Arab people off the face of the earth (earth inside the borders of Gaza anyway), and we are financing it, there’s no way I see that as acceptable.
Too bad Obama has already pledged his allegance AIPAC so I won’t assume this will end any time soon.
Saturday, January 17 at 8:35 pm
Per CNN 1,200 people have died in this conflict. 400 of those are kids. WTF kind of war tactics are the Jews useing? Fucking 33% of the fatalities are children? Beef – I demand an explanation. Are the Jews evil, or is this the only way to fight terrorism?
Saturday, January 17 at 8:59 pm
I read this in another blog:
“Nobody wants to say this, but civilians ARE deliberately targeted in war. What was done during World War II? Cities were bombed mercilessly, and men, women and children were burned alive.
Of course the civilians were the targets. Governments can not wage war for long without the consent of the people, which is why they generate so much propaganda. The purpose of the bombing was to undermine public support for the war in the enemy country by devastating its civilian population.
I don’t see anything new here. War is evil, and always has been. Rather than make a technical argument against this particular war, we should all take a principled stand against war in general. Any undertaking that necessarily involves the murder of innocent people, including little children, can NEVER be acceptable or necessary, the lies of the state and its apologists notwithstanding.
Christianity was supposed to have taught us a different way to relate to others, including our enemies. And what’s happened? The soldiers in our ostensibly Christian countries have nominally Christian chaplains bless them before they go out to kill whichever strangers their superiors tell them to kill. Wonderful, isn’t it?
I’m with you in supporting the victims of this murderous violence. It all makes me so sad. This is how the world has always been. What can we do, except refuse to be a part of it?”
I support a complete anti-war sentiment. When was the last time that an aggressive war policy has gotten us anywhere? WWII?
Times have changed, and it is now impossible to effectively fight wars against terrorists that hide as civilians. All we do is spend money, kill people, tarnish our image, and get nowhere.
We need to make the war against terrorism a war of ideas rather than bombs. That is a war that we would inevitably win, because terrorists are assholes and the people there would realize that if we would quit acting like assholes as well.
What does this little Hamas attack do for Isreal? I imagine murdering 400 kids probably just created at least 10,000 new angry terrorists. If you bombed my kid because a terrorist was hiding in the house next door I would make it my life mission to kill every one of you fuckers.
If it were up to me, the free world would unite, create safe zones that we invest in and give opportunity for people from shitty countries to move to, cut off all free world economic ties to terrorist/crappy countries, and then use only tactical/non civiliian, sweet CIA/james bond/spy tactics to dismantle terrorist infristructure.
Sunday, January 18 at 9:04 pm
well quoted. I guess that is just spelling out what is fairly obvious, isreal no longer gives a shit about the palestinian’s (or their innocent children’s) thoughts on the war, they are stronger and they will submit. Gaza is basically a prison and they have a faction revolting, so the IDF prison guards are quashing it. like you said, how is this a long term solution? I assume Isreal already has budgeted in for future 10-100 fold increase in suicide bombers who recently lost their family.
As to your solution, isnt that was our country is supposed to be for? isnt that what we used to do? that just confirms my thoughts that we are quickly running out of land on this planet. have we just lost our way or is that inevitable with a maturing country like ours who has different problems to deal with now like rebuilding infrastructure, full jails and collapsing economies. I just read that anyone over 40 years old has personally witnessed a doubling in human population on the planet. I for one cant wait for another doubling by the time im ready to retire. im sure thats going to work out great for me.
Thursday, January 22 at 11:10 pm
There’s nothing anyone can do to stop massive amounts of people from dying now or in the future, near or long term. Right now there are roughly six billion people on the planet and the estimate is for 9 billion around 2040. As it is, there are already so many cultures and clashing ideas that there is no shortage of possibilities for future conflicts. Wars of the past have traditionally been fought over land, wealth and religion. Wars being fought today, and in recent history, and most likely in the near future, are and will be mostly civil wars, racially motivated(more specifically, racistly; genocide, ethnic cleansing), or religious. Wars of the future farther off will be (I’m guessing) fought for environment vs. industrial growth between countries in the UN and younger developing nations that can’t see beyond their poverty to understand the bigger picture (which is understandable to a degree), fought over fresh water and food resources (farmable land, water filtration plants), and RELIGION (who could forget about that record holder?).
The point is that no matter what progress the nations and organizations of the world make, there will always arise new challenges, and with new challenges: some cultures will have relative success over others, most likely not in a confrontational way in the beginning, but that will undoubtedly translate into a desperate conflict for survival transgressed by the less fortunate side of the situation.
Just think rationally – there are already millions of people starving and dying of thirst on Earth as we speak – in 2040 there will be another 3 billion people in need of sustenance that we can not presently support. They WILL fight to live, like all animals must.
Perhaps we will develop more advanced agricultural technologies, for example, building food factories where we can clone over sized cows indefinitely as a renewable resource of beef. Then, there will surely be organizations and groups, most likely religious, possibly ethical, that will oppose cloning vehemently, and demonstrate their outrage through acts of violence.
In order to be productive and creative, there must be a struggle. If you’ve seen Wall-E, you know exactly what I mean. The only way to eliminate war is to totally remove any demand for anything, for ever. As long as one group of people has something that another needs to live, or wants to have, or thinks is wrong, there will be war. And there will be innocent life taking on all sides involved.
By refusing to take part in killing, you’re not stopping it by any means. By 2050, 50% of the Amazon rainforest will be destroyed and replaced by cattle farms to take advantage of the extremely profitable and huge demand for beef in well developed countries like ours. We’re at war right now because certain groups of people passionately hate our way of life, and we’re supporting a religious war over Israel and catalyzing the ability of Israel to kill innocent palestinian children.
Just by eating a hamburger, going to church, paying your taxes or practicing freedom of speech, you are either funding or fueling, or both, inevitable killing. Good job. You would cause less death by just killing yourself than by trying to help.
I just think of it as necessary population control. Population control…that explains why homosexuality would be a naturally born characteristic as well, considering that it has no other survivalistic function. Is it wrong? No…it just is. But now I’m rambling. Peace to the dead. (there can be no peace for the living, I only hope we can all be blessed enough to have a peaceful death when the time comes)