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2005-07-13 Europe

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Posted by Steve 2005-07-13 08:57|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Love Auntie Beeb's scare quotes: 'Bomb'

The office said in a statement that the device consisted of a tube filled with gun powder, small bullets and a detonation mechanism.

Okay, I give up. What is that? What would be a better, BBC-approved word for that? 'Amusement'? If it had been found outside of the Beeb's bureau, something tells me they would recognize it as a device intended to destroy their property and kill as many people standing nearby as possible.

But I'm still having a hard time coming up with the right word for that. Any help?

Posted by eLarson 2005-07-13 10:15|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-07-13 10:15|| Front Page Top

#2 We should offer them "thingy".

We've been waay too stingy with it, keeping it to ourselves. It serves so well in so many situations. Not as all-purpose as "shit" or "damn", and nothing comes close to "fuck", of course, but "thingy" is pretty good.

Posted by .com 2005-07-13 10:22|| 2005-07-13 10:22|| Front Page Top

#3 It never ceases to amaze me. That we (Westerner's) are always bashed because we don't understand Islam. Yet, instead of changing the countries they live in through voteing (would of been easier for them had the not did 9/11).The left was already sympathetic with them. They could of pushed the Palestinian cause all the way to upper levels of goverment, if they were just patient, something I keep being told "they are patient". Just look at how they were making headway in many European countries. When they attacked on 9/11, they succeced in dividing people in those European countries (as well as the US). But then they start to kill innocents in other countries, which changes the minds of some of the people that were for them, but only stengthens the beliefs of those against them.

Posted by plainslow 2005-07-13 10:31|| 2005-07-13 10:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Hofstad Group? Sounds like some kind of Dutch or German beer.

Convert to Religion of ~~Decapitation~~ of ~~Humans Blown to Pieces~~ Peace, most certainly.

Notice how only a tiny number of Moooslims, all males, condemn the terrorists. The total absence of Mooooslim women is astounding! Don't the mothers of these would-be (BBC's termed bombers) murderers have anything to say?

By the way, the BBC's refusal to call these monsters anything but bombers ought to remind all British people that the BBC is subsidized by taxpayer pounds! Let the BBC go the way of the private sector, and it will have an auidence similar to Air America ... about 10 Marxist-Leninist profs that hang out at Oxford.

Posted by Sneth Throluger6439 2005-07-13 10:51|| 2005-07-13 10:51|| Front Page Top

Mon dieu! You say zere was a bumb found in zee boy's bedroom?

Posted by BigEd 2005-07-13 11:16|| 2005-07-13 11:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Instead of "bomb," how about "school project?"
Do they have madrassas in Holland?

Posted by James">James 2005-07-13 11:35|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2005-07-13 11:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Sources close to the investigation told ANP that intercepted telephone calls showed the youth seemed to have been out to get Independent right-wing MP Geert Wilders. The MP also confirmed on Wednesday that the teen, who is the administrator of radical Islamic newsgroups, was suspected of threatening him via the internet.

Our "fake" Murat was posting from the Netherlands. His rantings sounded like something a teenager would write.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-07-13 13:12|| 2005-07-13 13:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Small world. Still wouldn't want to paint it, though.

Posted by eLarson 2005-07-13 14:00|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-07-13 14:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Is Infernal Machine still viable?

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-13 14:42|| 2005-07-13 14:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Religious artifact, perhaps?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-07-13 16:17|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-07-13 16:17|| Front Page Top

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