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
They ought to feel lucky that they ‘sploded like that and didn’t have to stick around for the OSHA investigation.
Reminds me of an old routine of the late comedian Sam Kinison about Chernobyle. “Hell,” he said, “We didn’t have to go to war with the Soviet Union–we got ‘em to BOMB THEMSELVES-BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!” ( throwing head back as he did so) LOL.
When rigged to explode Mr. Bus is no longer your friend.
Looks like we’re doing a good job of killing off the smart ones.
Just Darwin at work. Wish he’d get busier all over the world.
They forgot. The bus had to maintain at least 50 mph. Either that or Dennis Hopper hit the “ka-boom” button.
Reminds me of an episode of The Unit where a busful of smallpox infected terrorists needed to be stopped. Maybe SgtMaj Jonas Blane had a hand in this one as well…
OK, I’m dense. Enjoy the raisins. As in hooters?
Bill K.,
This might help
http://ko.offroadpakistan.com/religion/2004_08/quran_may_promise_grapes_not_virgins.html
Interesting bit about the grapes vs. virgins. I’m sure there is some commentary in there – I’m not up to the task.
Anyone? Anyone?
At the risk of stating the obvious, it would seem there are no electrical circuit diagrams in the Koran.
14?? Dang – 14 times 72 = 1008 virgins running ’round summers. Don’t think we got that many in the whole state. How DO they decide who gets which ones? And 1008 raisins is more than I got in the last box of Post Raisin Bran. Don’t ask.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Only regret is we didn’t have “film highlights at 11″
Is this in the running for Darwin Award of the Year now?
Wonder if enough of the bus is left to qualify for a cash for clunkers rebate should the Administration want to implement this hugely successful program in Afghanistan in order to provide a “teachable moment” about democracy in action?
“OK, boys. I finished the bomb, the bus is full of explosives, the detonator is highly unstable and I´m not really sure about the exact time it´ll go kaboom. Why don´t we take it to our lovelly unpaved bumpy road and ride a while?”
“Good call, Achmed, let´s go!”
Or as Tom Clancy calls them, “not so smart bombs”
Interesting note on “Enjoy the raisins” comes from a blog post by Frank J. http://www.imao.us/archives/001332.html and this in turn comes from a rather scholarly look at the text itself which renders the eternal reward as “white raisins of crystal clarity”. You can read an article about the analysis here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/jan/12/books.guardianreview5
Thanks for the amusing reminder of how truth is much less believable than fiction.
Oh, I was trying to remember who coined the term spodeydopes. Was it the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler? I do find an old reference here http://www.nicedoggie.net/2005/?p=1363
Hey, we got snacks and we got explosives. ROAD TRIP!