It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Verdigris" It was a swell bit of timing. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10
Or Sikhs. Or, and I'm damned if I can remember which sect they are, the "Celestial" Americans, who wear turbans. It made a point, as did the Jesus-creeper remark. And suggesting that being pissed-off with religious intolerance is racist is rather short sighted. I'm well aware of the difference. If others aren't, that's their misfortune.
Charity is requested with hat in hand and bowed head. It is preceded by "please" and completed with "thank you." If it shows up as cases of pickled beets and salted cod, you are going to live on pickled beets and salted cod and be glad that it wasn't laundry detergent and cat litter. And if god told you not to eat cattle or swine, don't shake your dead children in my face as they starve amidst plenty. When did this crap start about charity being demanded and specified? The VICTIMS! are welcome to starve if they don't like the packing crates. Indonesia is a member of OPEC. Why didn't the oil-rich countries toss in a $billion or two in spare change? Physical reality will have the last laugh as cholera and dysentery propagate without regard to race, creed, color, religion, or national origin. Death is always an equal opportunity employer. Nature doesn't care; we do. Their roads are washed out. Shouldn't we be sending them millions of SUVs, all-terrain vehicles, and motor scooters with knobby tyres free of all charges? Helmets, too - safety first!
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Mick Whittingham Indeed. Nature shrugs its shoulders and man's puny structures are as if they never were. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10
And not all of them are tourist: http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Tsunami_Disaster/0,,2-10-1777_1641825, 00.html
fwiw, it looks to me like the perfect antidote to the hard-of-thining who claim all religion to be an ultimate force for evil in the world. Yes, basically.
I think it's also partly a reaction against what's gone on in Iraq. "We're nice people despite the actions of our government and want to show it somehow."
(The Older Gentleman) wrote in If you had to go and make your point in Bradford, I bet you'd couch it in different terminology. I wonder how much the dickheads have donated to the tsunami appeal.
Listen. In my OP, I took great care only to mention religious groups, not racial. I had a feeling someone would try and play the race card. OK, trolling, if you like. Now, sweller rightly pulled me up on the Red Cross/Red Crescent point. If you've read the thread, you'll see I'm grateful for his point and I've learned something (quite a lot, actually) that I didn't know. He also chided me for the remark, but sweller was discerning enough not to play the race card because sweller's radar is rather finely tuned. He doesn't get the wrong end of the stick. You, OTOH, would get the wrong end of a hula-hoop.
Must remember this line for future use. Rates up there with: "Just because Dorothy dropped a house on your sister!"
(The Older Gentleman) struggled to ejaculate: What is the reflective index of said pate these days, then? ITWSBT
Interesting when, AIUI, the logo was chosen simply to be the "reversal" of the Swiss flag. [/QUOTE] Because of Switzerlands neutrality... If you are running an aid/medical organization and you want it to be able to go about its business unhinderd by the populace at large, to be accepted, doesn't it make sense to have a logo/symbol that is acceptable or appears positive? -- O 1 Black, shortly to undergo extensive surgery. 1 Red, undergoing lightweight surgery. ----- 1 Blue, for Power-Ranger baiting. | o | Numbers ... | o | Stuff ... | ooo | Life ... -----
(The Older Gentleman) wrote in Ok TOG, lets take another look at your OP. ================================================= ================================================= So you claim that you are referring to religions not races. What religion do the 'wealthy ragheads' belong to TOG? Capitalism in all likelihood I'd have thought The fact of the matter is that your bluster about differentiating race and religion is belied by the use of a particularly insensitive and derogatory name for these people, whatever their race or religion So how *would* you refer to Muslims/Arabs/Jordanians if you were making your point to a large crowd of people in Bradford TOG? I bet you wouldn't refer to them as 'Ragheads' face to face would you? Feel free to take this second opportunity to answer this question.
Yes. It's just interesting to see *who* objects and *why*. Hence, I suppose, the new Red Cross/Crescent logo due this year.
