Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Have any of you more mature folks noticed how much “cultural relativism” resembles “situational ethics,” which sang its siren song of “anything goes” to the intellectuals of the 1960s? It was a bad idea under that heading too. Many’s the discussion my folks and I had over situational ethics, which we finally decided was another example of “there, there, dear. You don’t have to make difficult moral decisions about tough questions. To each his own, you know.”
But that’s what we’re here on earth for — to learn, to grow, and make the difficult moral decisions that make us grow. Isn’t it?
Marianne
Wow. Somalia’s starting to sound like the University of Florida. Of course, the firmness of plastic implants is also deceptive.
(zoiks…incoming! Duck and cover!)
; )
Well, all I know is someone is going to make a killing selling “Show me your [mammalian protuberances]” t-shirts to the Taliban.
guy … Maybe you could call them ‘ta-tas’ the way they do in New Orleans and sometimes Houston. Sounds friendlier somehow.
Marianne
Marianne, the Somali hardliners have just come to the point where they’ve adopted our cultural practice of “Shake it Baby, Shake it!”
Expect a story in the New York Times “Somalian Women Adopt Natural Look.”
Sounds like the Taliban version of a Seinfeld episode…
“No bra for you. One year!”
“But Officer! They’re real and they’re spectacular.”
“What’s that guy’s problem? It’s like he’s some sort of Ta Ta Nazi!”
That’s. Just. Weird.
So do the regligious police get to do the inspecting themselves?
And the shaking too? Or at least get to watch said shaking?
There should be guys lined up around the block for that job, I imagine.
But wait. Wouldn’t that violate that seeing a female non-relative unclothed thingy?
I’m guessing this is a what’s-good-for-the-goose is um…so much better for the gander.
I’m betting there’s a whole lota ‘spectin goin on…..
I mean, under those burkhas (sp), how could you tell by looking?
It’s all for official business ‘course.
Where do I sign up to be an inspector? Not wanting to go to Somalia, maybe I could do it at airport security?
Gosh,
I can’t wait until the somali cab drivers in Minneapolis refuse transport to any women wearing a bra. You know it’s just a matter of time now. First it was dogs, then it was booze and now….
In related news, NOW HQ refused to comment on the mistreatment of women by sexist pigs who trreat woemn like property. They said they the top leadership were attending a fund raiser.
As a tactical matter, do the enforcers with Al Shabaab just walk around gawking and detaining, or do they set up roadblocks, checkpoints, and… ummmm… booby traps?
Haw! Haw! Haw! Haw! Snork!
Some days the jokes just write themselves….
– Max
It’s Sheik Yerbouti (Frank Zappa) all over again.
Lex had a mis-print due to Somali translation. The group is actually I’ll She-Boob.
Hey wait, wouldn’t there a song by that title?
She Boob, she Boob, la la la la la la la
And what to do with the poor guy suffering from man-boobala?
i say we bombard ‘em with Victoria Secret catalogs, especially the inserts with “free panty”.
Is it just me or do these Islamists act like 13 year old middle school boys who’ve been let run wild?
Maybe the boys of South Park can work up a scheme for boob inspections?
Pretty soon, bra manufacturers will include a disclaimer:
“Not to be used in a manner contrary to local law, custom, or religious principles”
..translated into 97 different languages
Talk about a cultural divide.
I thought deceptive bras were a great idea, almost a religious experience, some of them.
And that’s why Lex’s place is a mandatory stop daily (or more) for the wisdom of the ages displayed here….:)
I’m sure the local imams didn’t intend for that to be as much fun as it sounds…