Smuggled sperm

[DigitalBuddha]

Smuggled sperm

Palestinians born 'from prisoners' smuggled sperm

He was born in Nablus's al-Arabia hospital in August last year. Within a few hours he looked more comfortable, snoozing in the arms of his mother Dallal. The father though was absent. Ammar Ziben is serving 32 life sentences in an Israeli prison for his involvement in bomb attacks in Jerusalem in 1997.

Well yes, what did you think this was all about?  Fun and games? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21658940

...Look, Ammar, I don't want a partner. In fact I don't want the father to be someone I have to see socially, or who'll have any interest in rearing the child himself.

[Boston Rockbury]

All arabs are automatically guilty of hating Israel and of being muslims.
The best thing would be to get rid of the lot of them. We could call it 'the final solution' or something catchy like that.

Just in case there was any doubt I thought I'd better add that the above is intended ironically.

Some people say that Americans don't get irony but then Alanis wrote a whole song about it a while ago and to anyone ouside the States, Canadians are just Americans with snow-shoes. However most of the things in her song - "like ray-ey-ain on you weddin day", weren't ironic, just a pain in the ass. And that of course is highly ironic.

As for my real feelings - love and peace to arabs and israelis - not that that has much to do with the original post.

[DigitalBuddha]

All arabs are automatically guilty of hating Israel and of being muslims.
The best thing would be to get rid of the lot of them. We could call it 'the final solution' or something catchy like that.

Just in case there was any doubt I thought I'd better add that the above is intended ironically.

Some people say that Americans don't get irony but then Alanis wrote a whole song about it a while ago and to anyone ouside the States, Canadians are just Americans with snow-shoes. However most of the things in her song - "like ray-ey-ain on you weddin day", weren't ironic, just a pain in the ass. And that of course is highly ironic.

As for my real feelings - love and peace to arabs and israelis - not that that has much to do with the original post.

"All arabs are automatically guilty of hating Israel and of being muslims."

That's just like your opinion, man. I doubt that very many people believe that "all arabs are automatically guilty of hating Israel and of being muslims." 





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[RighteousDude]

I doubt that very many people believe that "all arabs are automatically guilty of hating Israel and of being muslims." 

I live in a rural mountain community in which the economy is primarily based upon energy extraction and agriculture, so there are many of that sort about. They're generally nice folks who are always ready to lend a hand when it's needed, but dumb as sun dried shit. They just don't have it in 'em to experience cognitive dissonance. I actually like most of them just fine, and we get along well because I either steer the conversation away from politics and/or religion or just nod and say uh-huh while seeking an exit. Most of them don't know that this freaky longhair disagrees with almost everything they stand for -- it's important to them that everyone think as they do and it's not a fight I'm inclined to take up because I can think my own thoughts just fine already.

When the locals are at the height of their inflamed self righteous passion, they cannot speak of the president without using his middle name because to them Hussein means Muslim and Muslim means hate-filled terrorist bomber. Most still believe that the guy is ineligible to be president because he was born outside of the US, and the fact that his mother was a citizen so even if he was born on the moon he's a citizen by birthright means nothing to them. (No, I am not defending the guy. I think he's every bit as evil as his predecessor.) They believe that there really is a "terrorist threat", and that The Troops are literally defending their freedom and way of life. They don't understand the term American Exceptionalism, and take it to mean that the US is just measurably better than everyone else. They believe that libruls hate America, non-whites are genetically inferior (so it's not their fault), that freedom of religion means we have to put up with Jews but not anyone else and especially not atheists (who are really all devil worshipers but won't admit it), and hydraulic fracturing is perfectly safe and those folks claiming their wells are contaminated by it are just looking for a free ride on the backs of hard working American oil companies. The locals believe that "weapons of mass destruction" were found in Iraq, that the Taliban fully supported bin Laden, "Arab Spring" was originally about yearning for good old American democracy, and whatever other nonsense Fox News tells them. A hot selling item at the drug store in town was icons of flag draped crosses.

My wife can't go more than about a week without remarking that Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual.

[Hominid]

Canadians are just Americans with snow-shoes.

Being a Canadian, I disagree: we're also differentiated by our better manners, and we don't carry handguns everywhere!  ;-)

[RighteousDude]

Being a Canadian, I disagree: we're also differentiated by our better manners, and we don't carry handguns everywhere!  ;-)

Oh shut up and go back to your poutine, Canuckistani! 

[Hominid]

See what I mean about the manners?   

[RighteousDude]

See what I mean about the manners?   

Boy, what a sensitive lot you are up there in Northern Mexico! 

It's that kind of shit made me dump my Canadian girlfriend. Which leads naturally to the question I've never got around to asking: Do pubescent virgin Canadian males fabricate tales of their nymphomaniacal American girlfriends?

[Hominid]

I wouldn't know, I've yet to meet a Canadian pubescent that is virgin... we score pretty early up here.   

[DigitalBuddha]

I wouldn't know, I've yet to meet a Canadian pubescent that is virgin... we score pretty early up here.   

[RighteousDude]

I wouldn't know, I've yet to meet a Canadian pubescent that is virgin... we score pretty early up here.   

Uh, Dude, I've got and have had Canuck clients in my internet applications development business, so I know better. Try again! 

[Hominid]

Wow dude, that must be some interesting software you develop, giving you first hand knowledge of your client's private sexual habits!  Any "back doors"? 

[DigitalBuddha]

Wow dude, that must be some interesting software you develop, giving you first hand knowledge of your client's private sexual habits!  Any "back doors"? 

You mean coitus?

[RighteousDude]

Wow dude, that must be some interesting software you develop, giving you first hand knowledge of your client's private sexual habits!

If they were private I wouldn't know about them.  I have a strong sense of propriety and professional ethics so I don't go snooping around in other people's shit -- but there are those who just hang it all out on public display, and because of my job I've seen things I'd never have gone looking for otherwise and would just as soon have never seen at all. It's enlightened me on just how broad the range of "normal" really is. I don't judge, really, but some shit just makes ya wonder What The Fuck.

[Hominid]

Wow dude, that must be some interesting software you develop, giving you first hand knowledge of your client's private sexual habits!

If they were private I wouldn't know about them.  I have a strong sense of propriety and professional ethics so I don't go snooping around in other people's shit -- but there are those who just hang it all out on public display, and because of my job I've seen things I'd never have gone looking for otherwise and would just as soon have never seen at all. It's enlightened me on just how broad the range of "normal" really is. I don't judge, really, but some shit just makes ya wonder What The Fuck.

Ya, "normal" seems to have gone out the window. At least when it comes to social decorum and professionalism. We all have our versions of "normal", so we stick to others of the same ilk. Interesting stuff.