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The anti-American, Jihadi scarf

The anti-American, Jihadi scarf by Barrybar.
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Dunkin' Donuts Pulls Ad Featuring Rachael Ray In A Scarf That Looks Too Arab

Huffington Post | May 28, 2008 09:05 AM


Dunkin' Donuts has pulled a commercial featuring pitchwoman Rachael Ray wearing a scarf because Michelle Malkin and other conservative observers thought the scarf looked too much like a keffiyeh, what Malkin describes as "the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad."

The Boston Globe reports that Dunkin Donuts caved to pressure from the conservative blogosphere — and the fear of a mass boycott — and removed the ad:

The company at first pooh-poohed the complaints, claiming the black-and-white wrap was not a keffiyeh. But the right-wing drumbeat on the blogosphere continued and by yesterday, Dunkin' Donuts decided it'd be easier just to yank the ad.

Said the suits in a statement: ''In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design. It was selected by her stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial.''

Malkin praised the decision in her column, writing,

It's refreshing to see an American company show sensitivity to the concerns of Americans opposed to Islamic jihad and its apologists. Too many of them bend over backward in the direction of anti-American political correctness....

Fashion statements may seem insignificant, but when they lead to the mainstreaming of violence -- unintentionally or not -- they matter. Ignorance is no longer an excuse. In post-9/11 America, vigilance must never go out of style.

Malkin has previously lauded Dunkin Donuts for its support of immigration laws. 

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Kayon Walters []------[] says:

Oh what is this country coming to. Some people just need to get a real F@#king job.
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Jen SFO-BCN  Pro User  says:

Truly unbelievable and embarrassing.
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Ryan Opaz  Pro User  says:

unreal...what is wrong with this world
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ryo tomo  Pro User  says:

jesus.

oh well, dunkin' donuts is now held by a super evil private equity firm.
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indian nomad  Pro User  says:

Awesome. Paranoia rules.
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The Grand Duchess  Pro User  says:

...I am so sick of "stupid"!!!
There is no need for such absurd nonsense among supposedly intelligent people...how sad and annoying.
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

Remember that the USA is a little more than 200 years old. Still has a lot of growing up to do.

This stupidty reminds me of "freedom fries." Remember back in March 2003? If memory serves, french fries were introduced by a US citizen in Upstate New York.

US Congress opts for "freedom fries"
BBC online, Wednesday, 12 March, 2003, 13:40 GMT

French fries in the House of Representatives' cafeterias will now be known as "freedom fries" as part of a Republican protest at France's opposition to a war on Iraq.

Republican representative Bob Ney, whose committee is in charge of the eateries, said the action was "a small but symbolic effort to show the strong displeasure of many on Capitol Hill with the actions of our so-called ally, France".

French toast from now on will be known as "freedom toast".

The move - following the lead of a North Carolina restaurant - reflects the anti-French sentiment among some lawmakers who feel President Jacques Chirac is betraying the US by opposing its policy on disarming Iraq.

France has said it will use its veto to block a second UN resolution to allow war to commence with Iraq.
[Please click on link for full article]

If you have nothing better to do (obviously I don't) you can go here Whre do French fries come from? I would guess that a great many people don't know that "Irish" potatoes were growing in South America before the Christian era.
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TedSher  Pro User  says:

This is getting crazy. My wife wears a scarf with the same pattern, resembles the one Yasir Arafat frequently wore, but no one has said anything. America is a bewildering anomoly.
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The Grand Duchess  Pro User  says:

...it is just a scarf, people....what nonsense!

Barry,
My girlfriend and I have to always remind ourselves that the USA is only 200 years young, but even so, you'd think we'd have enough common sense to learn some lessons from some of the older cultures!
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TravelingMan  Pro User  says:

As I was getting ready for work this morning, I had the TV on and I heard this "news" which I initially took for a joke. I guess the joke's on me: this is pathetic. If all Arabs and Muslims are our "enemies", what the heck are we doing in Iraq and Afghanistan? And since when is wearing a white and black checkered cloth as an accessory, or even a keffiyeh, equal to supporting terrorism?

Who in their right mind would think Rachel Ray or Dunkin' Donuts is supporting terrorism? Oh yeah, it's those people...
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Ten Directions  Pro User  says:

I saw this in the news, how ridiculous.
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bfelice  Pro User  says:

so darned confusing to accessorize correctly. would a flag-pin help?
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

@CARPE OMNIVS! (Voglio Tutto o Niente!) says: And you'll all just read this comment and sit back and giggle because that's what you've been programmed to do instead of getting pissed off. To most of you I sound crazy and I don't even make sense because you're such Retarded Ignorant Scum who can't even read and write a sentence with it's proper subject and predicate much less formulate a thought that wasn't fed to you by the False Left/Right paradigm!! Calling you all RETARDS just an offense to actual Retards!!

I had let my dear friend's rant percolate in my head up until now and had been turning over in said head how to respond. My first thought was to point out that he couldn't have been more general in his statements. Then I wanted to tell all visitors here about two of my principal beliefs:

1. If the cap doesn't fit, don't wear it. (In other words, the remarks do not include you if you do not fall under the description.)

2. If the glove doesn't fit, you must aquit. (If the remarks don't point to you, don't be offended by it.)

But, on re-reading his remarks this morning, after a fairly good night's rest (my computer told me it was 1 AM shortly after I retired and I got up and stuck my headphone in so that the hourly reports wouldn't be audible).

Then I realized that, after all, CARPE OMNIVS! (Voglio Tutto o Niente!) wasn't as general as I had first thought. And the magic words were: ... To most of you I sound crazy and I don't even make sense because you're such Retarded Ignorant Scum ...

Of course, he has absolutely no way of knowing what "most of us" think. So, my dear friends, if the cap doesn't fit, don't wear it.

As it turns out, I happen to be singing from the same sheet of music and the evidence is widespread. The citizens of the USA are essentially totally uninformed and, with very few exceptions, lack the will and desire to struggle for any change whatsoever, even though a war is being waged against us.

And why is this? I believe we are all too comfortable. We aren't forced to live on $2/day; with the exception of Blacks, we aren't riddled with bullets and beaten half to death by the police; the school system has under-educated and mis-educated us; and the mainstream media has assumed that task of turning our minds into mush; the politicians lie, because if they don't we won't vote for them, simply because we cannot handle the truth; Bush has raped us, without even a dab of Vaseline, and we haven't let out more than a whimper; to quote Malcolm X, way back in 1965:

"You've been hoodwinked. You've been had. You've been took. You've been led astray, led amok. You’ve been bamboozled."
And while I agree wholeheartedly with my friend's comments, I try to understand why we are a nation of sheep.

As I mentioned above, the educational system and mass media collude to keep us in the dark. Were it not for the so often maligned internet, most of us still wouldn't have a clue about 90% of what we have learned outside of mass media. So, one has to consider the fact that people who, for one reason or another, depend on mass media are never going to be informed, therefore never going be ready to act in their own interests.

The other thing is that the government has gotten smarter and more brutal in addressing dissent. I cannot enter a plane without removing my tam, my shoes/boots, removing my jacket, opening my camera, my computer. And if I wore a keffiyah, I am sure I would not be enter an airplane, and would be a marked man.

Citizens are fast losing our rights, the Constitution has been shredded, along with White House emails that would show how much it broke the law. This Administration has been more secretive than any before it, and the weak-kneed Democrats have jumped on the Bush bandwagon so as prove that they are as tough.

The list is too long to list here. Cops who have Tasers awake each morning eager for opportunities to use them on citizens; paraplegics are thrown to the ground when they don't stand as ordered by the police; the government has "embedded" journalists in the war, the very journalists who depend on their military buddies to ensure their safety; the government has designated "Protest Zones" and evicted people who utter a single word of dissent or display a single poster of dissent.

Indeed, we have become a nation of sheep and we are being led to the slaughter.

Take the Iraq/Afghanistan war. I have long ago concluded that the only that this war could be brought to a swift conclusion was if more US military were killed. Period. Kill 10,000 more military folks and, suddenly, US citizens will notice that something is amiss. Then they will demand a speedy withdrawal.

General George S. Patton said that
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
As long as Patton's thesis holds true in Iraq, where the ratio is 1.2 million to 4,000+ there is no incentive, on the part of citizens, to see a speedy end to the war.

To my mind, only a reversal of that ratio will bring an end to the illegal war. And if we believe that our votes this November will do the trick, bring the war to a close, we will be sadly disappointed. A President who gets in the way of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (as JFK who didn't follow through with air cover during the Cuban invasion at the Bay of Pigs, and harbored the idea of winding down the war in Vietnam) will become the target of the real rulers, in collaboration with the CIA, who really know how to snuff the opposition.
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

Hey, I've always known that the government loves me, personally. (I don't know about the rest of you guys. I mean, how much the government loves you, if it loves you at all.) But it always gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling when a trusted friend reminds me. :)

Hang in there, brother. My anger may be in the bleachers; it may be in the box seats (I doubt it!), but we are in the same ballpark as far as our disgust with the state of affairs in that country (I'm sitting in Lima, so grammar prohibits me from saying "this" country.) ;)
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MiataPaul  Pro User  says:

wow you always put it so clearly! Hey some of us do love you, so don't get too down. This government does only love us when we pay our taxes and submit to there will.
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indian nomad  Pro User  says:

Agree completely with the above comment. If you loved and cared for your own country you would not sit still and allow it to be fucked so royally by Bush for 8 years.
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

@CARPE OMNIVS! (Voglio Tutto o Niente!) says:"You were once God Fearing Black People who fought for your Civil Rights! Now you are a living Minstrel Show! The epitome of shame and dishonor and self destructive culture. HA! "But you sho' does dances and sings good, don't cha!?"

Well, I wouldn't argue on several of your points, my friend. I personally believe that Black people would have been a whole lot better off if we hated God and loved each other. But that is not going to happen. Neither of the two propositions.

About being SCUM, I must admit the shoe fits. Too comfortably, in fact. Malcolm X spoke of the ballot or the bullet. You have stated in most eloquent terms, and I couldn't disagree, that the ballot doesn't work. Malcolm pointed out that the LBJ ticket got, I believe, 92% of the Black vote. At the very time that the establishment which we supported with all our might, was pushing us down further into the earth.

So, you call for change and rule out the ballot box, which, in the US, doesn't bring change. That leaves the bullet.

The only time I fired a gun, back in the good, old days in Madison, Wisconsin, I believed I hit an old van. On the other hand, you know guns inside out and I am sure can assemble and disassemble, blindfolded, anything that Uncle Sam hands to you.

And here's why the shoe fits. I have just about given up the ballot and don't know shit about guns. So, let me try this on and see how it fits:

Your way of life will be taken away from you for being such weak and pathetic, fat and lazy, ignorant trashy SCUM!! You are nothing!! You are nobody!! You are not even a shadow of who our Forefathers were! You are SHIT!! You are a Sewer!! And You Will Know Slavery!!
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

@CARPE OMNIVS! (Voglio Tutto o Niente!) says: ...Like I said, there is no hope! There is no Salvation! There is no Redemption for such vile, weak and pathetic amebas! Humanity has lost it's Humanity. They have become their own worst enemy....

You have made a great case for people who you describe, including myself minus the fat, to accept our fate meanwhile we eat, drink and make merry. You know, like how the condemned are offered their last meal? Which reminds me of the retarded guy that Bush it was, I believe, who ordered his execution. Prior to going to be killed, he asked them to save his meal for later.

If things are hopeless as you say, and I cannot find any solid argument with which to refute you because I can see where it is going myself, and Nazi Germany will be nothing but a walk in the park, then I may as well resign myself to my fate and spend my last days with Charlie Parker and James Baldwin and Marcel Proust and Swan Lake and La Boheme.

I can't recall your exact words at the moment, but I don't detest, scorn or think nothing of people. I accept that people, like myself, have their/our faults. All my life I have admired humanity, in general yes, although I absolutely detest the detestable (by my standards, of course). I have liked people, with all their faults, all my life which is why I go up into their faces with my camera to capture that light that is reflected; which is why I marvel at the the smiles, the laughter, the movements of babies, those new wonders of the universe. That's why I have always found it difficult to read in public, because the movement and interactions of people always fascinate me.

I know what it took to become aware of the few things of which I am aware. I know what the educational system in Jamaica short-changed us. How it took years for us to discover that the villains we were taught about in school were really our heroes because they lost their lives fighting for our freedom. But it was the British government who controlled our education in my youth, and even though they are not there now, they have left enough brain-dead educators behind that I doubt the children are being taught what they need to know.

I will not blame people who have been so misled, so mis- and under-educated that there is no way of knowing what you know. You, like all of us, were born with a tabula rasa and if you were not fortunate enough to meet certain people, to have read certain books, to have been lucky to live in an environment that made you who you are today, as informed as you are, you would be nothing more than SCUM yourself. I believe your contempt for humanity makes it impossible for you to see where some people emerged from the womb destined to lose, and others destined for the good life. Take George Bush, for example, who has never succeeded at anything. Still managed to become President ... twice. Which made his father a very sad man because it was Jeb who he wanted to be President.

The little that I know, I have gained by serendipitously. I came to the US with an almost total unawareness of the world around me. But within two weeks, I discovered WBAI. In 1972, I listened to the lectures of the late Professor Harvey Goldberg at UW-Madison. And, from the 70s, I have relied on alternative media, from the East Village Other, the Great Speckled Bird, to The Village Voice and beyond. And now, the raving Alex Jones and a host of other sites.

And although I am far less informed than you are, I can easily understand why a vast majority of people will never, ever be able, either through intellectual capacity and/or opportunities, to attain your level of knowledge. I don't look down at them, nor despise them, nor do they disgust me. Some of us simply never had and never will have a chance.

Now, I realize how one-dimensional I must appear here in the world of cyberspace, always pointing out the stuff that is going wrong (with the exception of Jamaicans who are always breaking world records and flying around the world solo) and never offering solutions. The reason why I don't offer solutions is because I don't have a clue about how to fix the mess we're in. I conclude that if you have solutions you are keeping your cards hidden. Maybe you are so disgusted that you believe we all deserve to die in the most horrible fashion. You said you are not here to save anybody. OK, save yourself then. You owe that to yourself. Let us who don't know our asses from a hole in the ground go to our oblivion.

But when I am in Hell, with the fire burning my ass, I believe I will still find time to tell the other unfortunates around me, about this guy who foretold the disaster. And you will become legend!
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

If memory serves, you made a comparison between the fat, lazy, elite scum in the US who do nothing, and people in other countries who struggle.

I too admire people who struggle. I admire the Bolivians who struggled to get their water back out of the hands of privatization.

I admire the Venezuelans who, in April 2002, went into the streets by the hundreds of thousands to demand that the people who staged a coup against the government, return their President Hugo Chávez.

I admire the Mexicans who flooded the square in Mexico City, even though it didn't overturn the stolen elections.

I admire the Vietnamese who fought against US imperialism.

I admire the Russians who fought against the German invasion.

I admire the Algerian resistance against the French, as I admire the French resistance against Germany.

I admire the Cuban Revolution that rescued its people from the US mafioso in Havana, while extricating the country from the claws of US imperialism.

And I admire the resistance in Iraq and Afghanistan who are fighting to keep their country free from imperialist domination. On the other hand, some people will admire the US government for already killing in excess of one million innocent men, women and children in Iraq alone. Of course, I know you couldn't possibly admire those ragheads and camel jockeys, because they are losers. The US has killed more than a million of them, and they have only managed to kill a mere 4,000 plus about another 1,000 or so mercenaries. Maybe they will get lucky the longer the illegal war endures. Then they may get a little of your respect.

If only we could rise to those levels, then we could, in turn, probably merit just a tad of your admiration.
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

@CARPE OMNIVS! (Voglio Tutto o Niente!) says: Let's just say I admire them for what they are even though I consider them my enemies.

I am going to make it easy on you, also because Flickr may have limited bandwidth for a full response. Tell me who are your friends, and I will figure out who your enemies are.

But my larger question is: what makes them your enemies. Iraq is 6,005 miles from Queens, New York. What makes an Iraqi family, sitting quietly in their home, with grandpa and grandma, the children and one in the wife's stomach ... what makes them your enemy?

Caracas is 2124 miles from Queens. When those Venezuelans went into the streets to demand their President be returned to his post, what makes them your enemy.

I know that all these people are President Bush's enemies, but since you are far more intelligent, it strikes me as a strange coincidence that you should both take different roads to arrive at the very same mindset. You won't convince me that it is because White minds think alike. I know better.

So, an easy question. Who are your friends in this world, apart from your Marine buddies, I mean?
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

I'm still trying to figure this out. Bear with me. Let me see. "SCUM" (US military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan) has traveled 6005 miles from Queens, New York to Baghdad, Iraq; 7403 miles from San Francisco to Kabul, Afghanistan, to fight an illegal war to kill innocent raghead/camel jockey men, women and children, who are also "SCUM."

Maybe that was the way it was before the Flood, and how it is destined to be.

It is inevitable, you say. It is ordained by the dark forces.

Let me tell you how I live my life. I live my life as best as I can ... until the dark forces arrive. There is no exit, right? So why bother? Why spend my life in the fetal position, waiting for the evil forces to drop the big one?

Well, here is how I see it. "Eat, drink and be merry. For tomorrow we die."

OK Aryans, take it away!
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

I'm still trying to figure this out. Bear with me. Let me see. "SCUM" (US military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan) have traveled 6005 miles from Queens, New York to Baghdad, Iraq; 7403 miles from San Francisco to Kabul, Afghanistan, to wage an illegal war to kill innocent raghead/camel jockey men, women and children, who are also "SCUM."

Maybe that was the way it was before the Flood, and how it is destined to be. SCUM vs SCUM!

CARPE OMNIVS! (Voglio Tutto o Niente!) says it is inevitable. That it is ordained by the dark forces. That Aryans rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me tell you how I live my life, my friend.. I live my life as best as I can ... until the dark forces arrive. There is no exit, right? So why bother? Why spend my life in the fetal position, waiting for the evil forces to drop the big one?

Well, here is how I see it. "Eat, drink and be merry. For tomorrow we die."

OK Aryans, take it away! Born superior, you are bound to win, in the name of the dark forces, the un-SCUM!
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

@CARPE OMNIVS! (Voglio Tutto o Niente!) says: "Here we go again with Bush! Bush is nobody! How many times do I have to say it. Don't provide any veracity to your "one dimensional" theory about yourself, brother! Stop elevating Bush to a place he does not deserve. Aye, this is true about him but only because the ones above him know that such a dumb wretch would be easier to control!! So then that is his Karma, to be a controlled loser! But then again.....aren't we all!!"

I find it interesting that you accuse me of elevating Bush when I spend all my time criticizing him. You can see through him like a laser, yet he hands you his latest and greatest weapons, and you lug it with heavy back pack in search of lesser people to kill. Didn't Winston Churchill (now we're talking about real scum) describe you perfectly: "A conundrum wrapped in a mystery."

President Bush is nothing, absolutely nothing. But thanks for the gun and just point me to the enemy so I can kill him and his pregnant wife ... and their dog, while I am at it.

Or is it that deep down you want to kill us all, the scum, and that being in the Marines is your license to kill?

Don't think I have any illusions, my friend. We call each other "friend" on Flickr, but I know that you already know that I am the enemy, and that the first order that you receive from Bush, my ass is grass. But I am sure your aim is as sharp as your brain so you will hit me where it counts and put me out of my misery. Sounds a lot more humane to me than Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Baghram Air Base, or the hundreds of other dark sites that the US maintains all over the world. Maybe you are a friend, after all.

"Come here Watson, I think I figured it out!"
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

@CARPE OMNIVS! (Voglio Tutto o Niente!) says: You elevate Bush because you are making him the soul person responsible for all that has happened. You overplay, overstate, and overrate him! As if he were the architect of all this.

I do know that Bush is led by the people behind the screen, but I refer to him because though he may be the puppet, he is culpable, and bears responsibility. He is not as amorphous as the puppeteers. I couldn't name the members of the Bilderberg group, nor members of Skull & Bones, or all the neocons. So Bush will have to do, for shorthand.

You say: But I knew you wouldn't be able to resist making this into a racial argument. LoL! I was right.

I didn't start it, but it all about race. All ... about ... race! Why do you believe the Puerto Ricans, who don't have a representative in Congress, voted so overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton. All about race. Like those folks in West Virginia who couldn't bring themselves to vote for a Black person. Because in their minds they are voting for a Nigger. A caricature. 4/5th of a human being.

You say: You should be happy, my friend. After all....is this not what you've always wanted?? Try to deny that you have always dreamed the day you could see America and the West fall!

Are you elevating me to membership on the Dark Side? What I have always wanted is for Jamaica to dominate the 100 meters. And now we do. :)

Yoou say: You always seem to bring things into a discussion where they have no relevance sometimes. It's quite annoying actually.

I have that fault because, in the scheme of things, I'm realizing more and more how irrelevant I am.

You say: Blacks in this country don't love us at all.

One of the biggest problems with Blacks, better yet Negroes, is that they have loved you too much. They endure the heat to get their hair to look like yours. They will wait for you to endorse something so as to give it legitimacy so they can go buy it. They have spent all their time voting for White politicians who hate their guts. And, they will call themselves anything but Black. "He is Black; she is White, but I'm Puerto Rican." "I am Arab." Just don't call me Black. Blacks had thriving businesses at the height of racism in the USA, but once the White man said it was OK for them to sleep in their hotels and rent their halls and sit in their restaurants, the Blacks ran before he changed his mind, and Black businesses bit the dust.

Malcolm X said it quite interestingly. When the slave master was sick, the house nigger would say: "We sick boss?"

I can imagine the number of slave rebellions nipped in the bud because some house nigger tipped off massa. That is stupidity, but don't you see a little love there as well?

The way I see it, considering the hate that came from the slave masters, don't you marvel at the love that Black people still have love in their hearts for everybody?

You say: LoL! Or....maybe I just like freaking you out Barry!

I'm not trying to act brave or anything, but you are not freaking me out at all. William Burroughs, yes, did freak me out with Naked Lunch. Way back when. But don't think I came down to Lima to hide out.

You say: But just how well do you think you know me, Barry??

Let me tell you a secret. I just turned 70 and am still trying to know myself. You must think I am pretty stupid to have come to the conclusion that I know you. I am certainly glad we met. And I certainly find your mind a wilder ride than the Cyclone at Coney Island, and I admire your intelligence no end. I don't know you at all, but I absolutely like to see your mind at work. I find some of your rants pure genius, one in particular I consider a gem. You make me think and there isn't a word that you have written that I haven't read and, often, marveled at. Does anybody know you? Props to them.

....I'm just sitting here laughing cuz I enjoy fucking with people. LoL! Maybe I have no clue about what's going to happen or if anything will happen aside from the usual mundane crap of everyday.

I've never been phased by predictions of Armageddon. I wasn't worried that the first seconds of the year 2000 would mark the start of chaos simply because Microsoft lacked foresight.

That's not saying the world won't end, in the sort of big bang with which it was created. I just don't worry about it. Maybe if all us darkies weren't born stupid, maybe I would.

You say: I doubt anybody besides us even reads this shit anymore! LoL! They're probably sick of us....aye!? LoL!

We read the shit because it represents our open correspondence. But you must admit that it is a lot of shit to keep up with. Flickr is the greatest consumer of time since Television was invented. And since I assume that the vast majority of Flickrites have high-paying, satisfying jobs, it would surprise me if anybody else could keep up with your profuse intellectual outpourings and my equally profuse introduction of the irrelevant.
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

@CARPE OMNIVS! (Voglio Tutto o Niente!) says: ...Other than that I have nothing further to say about the subject really. I'm bored...

You are bored, but I have just begun to unleash another bumper crop of irrelevancies. Please don't assume I am inviting you back because I have pretty good idea what boredom is all about, and realize it can be debilitating.

So I am just here talking to myself and, I am sure, that at my age, it is pretty much normal. So don't pay me any mind. I just want to say my piece and could care less that there be a response or not. Me da igual!

He says: I always said it's a good thing Arabs don't know how to fight worth a shit because they are truly brave. If they actually knew what they were doing then perhaps it would have been a fair fight!

Question. How come the Arabs don't know shit about fighting, and just aren't the killing machine that the US forces are?

Question. How come the US forces are so damned good at killing? Two atomic bombs over Japan. A few million Vietnamese murdered. etc etc etc

To get an answer, let's ask some more questions. When was the last time that Iran invaded another country? Yes, yes, I know they are not Arabs but let that slide. When was the last time, and the time before that an Arab country invaded another country?

See what I am getting at?

The United States has spent its entire history honing its fighting ability, its ability to annihilate others, the way Hillary Clinton promised to eliminate every man, woman and child if Iran dares to even stare down Israel.

I know I am taking a while here, but are you getting my point? The US is a finely honed killing machine. It has squandered its wealth on wars and weapons of mass destruction, and forfeited the future of its people as it sacrifices the wealth of the nation on arms, spending more on arms than all other countries in the world, combined.

And a vast amount of money spent on more than 700 bases worldwide, training, intelligence (the US has 16 separate intelligence agencies), repairing the broken fighters who return, and burying the ones who didn't make it.

How many spy satellites do the Arabs have? How many fighter jets? How many submarines? How many carriers? Drones. The US has seen to it that it has no equal, but at the same time the Arabs who cannot fight worth shit, have so far, with less lethal weapons killed 4,300 or so of the "best and bravest." And sent them home in the dark of night, out of sight.

The US has the record of armed conflict in far off lands, more practice than just about any other nation. A Turkish newspaper urges that the United States be listed in Guinness Book of World Records as the Country with the Most Foreign Interventions.

I draw your attention to the list of interventions, national and foreign, from Wounded Knee in 1890 thru Somalia in 2007: From Wounded Knee to Iraq: A century of U.S. military interventions

Cold-blooded killers!

Duh!
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

@CARPE OMNIVS! (Voglio Tutto o Niente!) says: Why don't you just delete all these comments on this thread. If you don't I will delete all of mine.

Be my guest. Delete yours.
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bfelice  Pro User  says:

hey, you two, please don't delete your conversation.

Why is June 26th the day, carpe omnivs?
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bfelice  Pro User  says:

www.brainyhistory.com/days/june_26.html
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bfelice  Pro User  says:

oh my, spreading jellybeans in lieu of...
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

@bfelice says: hey, you two, please don't delete your conversation.

If you, or anyone else, ever feel a need to punish yourself, please write to me at barrybar@gmail.com and I will send you a 17-page PDF of the complete conversation.

But don't you think you would find Guantanamo more satisfying?
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

I have decided to return these here as a public service. They were removed by the poster

CARPE OMNIVS! (Voglio Tutto o Niente!) says: Yes it's been hundreds of years since the Arabs or Iran did anything like that.
Yes indeed it's cold blooded. It's a cold blooded cruel world/universe. Thanks.
The point is that Americans (The Public) themselves have stood idly and allowed the NWO controlled government do all these things and have done nothing to stop it. Now they have accumulated a Karmic debt. They will be the target now! The military and police who have honed their skill in all these invasions will be used against Americans Themselves. That's the whole point I'm trying to make. Fuck those other places! I'm talking about Right Here in the USA!! Because they've had it coming! Reap what they Sow! Right!

Holy Shit bro!! That's been my point this whole time. I've been trying to play the Devil's Advocate but you haven't really helped me out at all! You keep taking little iotas of what I'm saying and shifting everything someplace else. My whole rant has been against the American Public. They're the ones that I called Scum! Not the Arabs. I said at least the Arabs are brave. At least they fought back. You keep arguing with me about them as if they are the ones I'm making a point about. You keep making shit about Race when it's about Power. You're being a stereotypical Negro! "IT'S CUZ I'M BLACK RIGHT! IT'S CUZ I'M BLACK RIGHT!"

Bro Shut the fuck up! You obviously cannot grasp what I've been trying to say and now you're just pissing me off! Just forget it bro. It doesn't matter. Nobody cares anyway. It's all going to be over soon. And I don't even care anymore. Just never mind. Why don't you just
delete all these comments on this thread. If you don't I will delete all of mine. Nobody even reads what we're saying anyway. It's been me and you alone for 2 days now. I'm obviously not getting through to anybody or you! Flickr sucks!

Everybody is a pseudo intellectual on here. They're really just Morons who are just stuck on the usual 1 dimensional shit. The Usual. Bush is bad. America is Bad. We need Hillary and Socialism to save us all fucking Bullshit! As if bro!!

You guys are fucking stupid! You all deserve to just die nasty style at the hands of the New World Order just for being idiots!!
And NO! I don't forgive them for being Morons!! Fuck Them!! That is why I say they are Scum and that is why I'll enjoy coming after them! AND THEM I MEAN THESE STUPID WESTERNERS BARRY NOT ARABS OK!! NOT BLACK PEOPLE EITHER! I GUESS I HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU RIGHT??

I've picked my sides!! The Elite are right about all of you! As usual I'm getting nowhere with you cuz you are hung up about color and
other stupid shit when it's so much more than that. I'm sitting here typing away about the destruction that's coming to America because of what they've sown and you're gonna give me shit about the Arabs and the Iranians. What next, Slavery?? I know you'll go there cuz that's all you Barry! What the Fuck?? Barry!!? Get over the hump! Everybody suffers! Please don't tell me ya'll are only good at running the 100 meters and making the same boring ass arguments about how Black people had it rough cuz you know, on TV they always have ya'll saving the world and curing cancer! I thought you were part of
the genius race, Barry?? Didn't you all invent everything according to you?? So then What The Fuck Is Going On Here then Barry??
This is bullshit!

Go beat off to a picture of Bush or go ask him out on a date. You can't stop talking about him so you must love him and shit! I'm over here dropping science of the way the world really works! On a much
grander scale! You're gonna waste my fucking time with Bush??Man get fuck adda here! Sorry, I thought we could play chess but you want to waste my time with checkers. Just never mind bro. You dun made me vexed!

Just whatever bro! America is Bad! The New World Order doesn't exist! Mercury is good for you! Fluoride is good for you! Obama is going to save everybody!

Taxes are going to stop the ice caps from melting. Socialism is good even though it's just a Feudalist Con Job. The Government Loves You! Believe what you want to believe! Smoking weed and listening to Bob Marley and being a bunch of pseudo-intellectual hippie types who think they know everything cuz they read Chomsky once and shit will stop the Elite from carrying out Eugenics on you too! Whatever! I don't care! You're all going to die!! WHITE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE TOO!! Humanity is nothing but Meat! What a bunch of fucking apes bro!! It's all over for all of you! All that will remain will be the Elite. They're obviously more worthy! I mean....they are the ELITE after all! I'm gonna go see if they're hiring!

Kali Ma Rules!! Fuck You All!! Dun pissed me off!!

So much for the 3rd Dimension!

Yawn.
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Barrybar  Pro User  says:

Here is the second of the two final posts. I post as a public service. I know he is saving a bullet for me, but someone else may be able to learn something from this early warning. But, knowing him as I do, he wouldn't want to waste a bullet. He would rather use his government-issued knife to slit my throat. Maybe he knows something I don't know, but Jamaicans are not known for licking boots!

CARPE OMNIVS! (Voglio Tutto o Niente!) says: I mean, Goddamn! I'm here laying out the whole plan that the New World Order has and not one person has gotten up to say...."Hey wait a minute, Carpe, you mean this shit is gonna happen here??" Uh...YES!!

And you Barry, by Mars, you just can't resist but turn it into a discussion about Race, as always. Typical Nigger bullshit!! I swear! By Mars, I will personally make sure that when we get to your house that it will be only Black Troops that will fuck you up!! Not one White guy will lay a hand on you! And I want you to look at those Black Troops who are fucking you up, and ask them...."Is it because I am Black!" LoL! They're gonna laugh at you and say...."No! It's
because your a Shmuck and cuz we're Evil!" And isn't that what it's all about Barry? In the end?? Good and Evil?? Not Black and White! But Good and Evil!! Why don't you go to the root of the problem which is Evil?? Let go of your Racial Insecurities!! Proove me wrong! That you're not a dumb Nigger. I didn't think you were and I think I'm a pretty good judge of character. But maybe I was wrong.
Good and Evil Barry!! Trust me!!

And I won't let that happen cuz I hate you Barry. I'm pissed right now but that will pass. I like you alot. But I'm gonna do it to prove a point to you!! And cuz I'm just fucked up like that I guess and I get bored! Savy!? I already know the perfect guy to do it too! Big Ass Jamaican Sergeant Reid! He used to be a Police Officer in Jamaica too! Now he's a Marine!

You just keep pointing the finger at Bush! Keep perpetuating the same mainstream view!! Thank you Barry! Thank you for empowering the Dark Side!!

By the way.....the NEOCONS ARE REALLY TROTSKYITES POSING AS CONSERVATIVES!! YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES!! NO SHIT SHERLOCK!! Why don't you say some shit about that!!
You may ask, why don't I??

Because I know it's a waste of time just like I know all this has been a waste of time!

You all deserve to get scams and Eugenics run on you for being so lazy as to need somebody like me to tell you this shit!! I mean I'm still telling you anyway but it won't make a difference. You won't research it yourselves. You just want to spend time on Bush Bush Bush! So good then! Have Scams and Cons and Eugenics run on you! You deserve it!

I told you I'm not here to save anybody!! I know there is no saving these apes!!

Just Die! Just Die seriously!! I can't wait till I'm in Homeland Security and taking everything from you all!! June 26th is the day baby!! It's Our Time Now Bitches!!

My boots will be dirty! I will need a good licking from you all!! Lick my boots baby!! Get in those trucks! Go burn in the camps! I can't wait to live in all you Yuppies' homes while me and my troops have our way with all of you for being so stupid!!

Don't Blame Us either! Blame yourselves and the Karma you've created for yourselves. We are just an instrument. And we have our own Karma we're dealing with!

This will all probably happen while Obama is in office but go ahead Barry....tell me more about how Bush is the Devil! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

Good and Evil Barry!! You know why in real life the Bad Guys always win??

Because Good is always so fucking Dumb!!
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indian nomad  Pro User  says:

Or make shitty websites like "sorryeverybody.com" as if that was enough... and even that is a marketing gimmick. They are effing selling books and tshirts and what not... so much for being sorry :(
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MsBlueSky says:

The scarf "looks too arab", jesus christ. People really need to get a life. This is ridiculous, and ignorant.
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akiey says:

Oh, and the Statue of Liberty really does look too French. What's being done about it? lol!

At times I wonder how many of those chest thumping wannabe patriots really know the origins behind many of the nation's symbols, names and even practices? They'd cringe to know the facts.
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topquark22  Pro User  says:

The scarf doesn't look like anything at all. It's just a scarf. Michelle Malkin is an idiot. And the management at DD (who kowtow to this kind of idiocy) make themselves just as stupid.

Anyways, just think of the free publicity they could have by continuing to run this ad! Who wouldn't wish for such a cunning stunt. The mind boggles.
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eeblet  Pro User  says:

A donut for Obama!
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Wafa_1991 says:

so what !
she must be proud wearing an arabic piece !!
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emad_ramlawi [deleted] says:

Palestinians are freedom fighters "fedayeen" there r trying to mix and dirty their image with Islam extremist Palestine struggle was always land and patriot based never religious , one of that examples is the PFLP is was a gr8 freedom organization (of course its labeled as terrorism )it was led by a Christian and followed a communist Marxist Leninism approach
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SUBLIME2006 says:

in a equal globlize world .we all have rights for us & for others .some time they are social, ecnomical, cultural, we must be tolarant. the girl is preety .she is arabic,i belive plestanian. i slute her for courage. it is there *fundamental right * to express them selve ..i love you lady .. you have all the rights to express . it is always easy to blame others . just for nothing. love you ..una hubak ..salam ya bint ..salam..plastenine urd al mubarik...long live soladirity with the *oppresed in all of the world***salute ..
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eppelpai says:

thats just bloody ignorant
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