Extreme Christian fundamentalists tend to be "leave us alone" doomsday preparers, e.g. Ruby Ridge & Waco, not terrorists wrecking havoc throughout the world to establish a caliphate.

Hey, Chris, if Christianity and Islam are interchangeable, I'm curious as to why you don't live in a Muslim country.

Your yogurt will be fine. But I'd eat, like, any already a few days old fish tonight.

Ice cream before yogurt.

The Washington grid is ripe for neighborhood fuel cell generation.

@: because he was born here? fuck your love-it-or-leave-it horseshit.

@8 - Funny how the RW is able to ignore this. Nothing bad was EVER done in the name of Christ...

If it only needs to be refrigerated, just put it outside...

I ate a yogurt on Friday that had a best before date of Oct 14. I'm still alive. It's "best before", not "poisonous after". It did remain refrigerated the whole time though, no power outages for my yogurt.

Soccer and music. ISIS clearly knows French people more than we know them, and that means we can't defeat them unless we make a every effort to learn everything about the how and why of their existence, so we can cut off their ability to recruit and get money to fund their terror.

People who love their lives don't become suicide bombers. We MUST fix the poverty and injustice that cause these mostly young people feel DEATH is preferable to the lives they're living.

Bombs won't fix this problem, just look at the Vietnam war. Targeting Muslims and building walls against refugees and immigrants will only help ISIS recruit more disaffected, alienated, unhappy and lonely people. These people do not fear death - it's their lives that are unbearable to them.

Their leaders are nihilists, not Muslims. Their goal is to destroy everything and rebuild from the ashes, with themselves as the new rulers. They're using religion to recruit angry people who feel victimized and marginalized. That's why there are so much similarity between their rhetoric and that of the psycho fundies in this country.

Continuing @8 re: @1, …continually undermining workplace protections and education, interfering with contraception & access to abortion (when they're not blowing up clinics), all-but-taking-over the GOP, trying to tell refugees where they may not live… oh, and occasionally beating up or killing some LGBT person you know and love…

@13, this young Somali-American was drinking and fucking his way through college along with the vast majority, but he was still vulnerable to terrrorist recruiters. It was the FBI doing the recruiting, but still…

@6
"because he was born here? fuck your love-it-or-leave-it horseshit."

I'm really not saying that. What I am saying is that people vote with their feet.

@13

If poverty created terrorists there wouldn't be a single building standing in the West. Try again.

@13

The Vietnam War was a horrible, horrible mistake.

I'm curious, though, where are all the Vietnamese terrorists? They seem to work their way up from poverty without hating their new homes in the West.

If your power goes out, don't open your refrigerator. If it's a newer refrigerator (say, anything after 2001) it will stay cold for at least 24 hours.

And by "don't open", I mean literally do no open it. Every time you open it, it loses some of that cold air inside it. Put a piece of tape or a chain and padlock or anything you can, to keep you and yours from doing it, because it is such a force of habit - especially if you have little ones around.

Hopefully, this will not be a repeat of 2006, when even Chez Vel-DuRay lost power for eight hours, but one never knows. It's that time of year, after all.

@13

Many of the ISIS leadership are middle class, educated men. The canard about poverty and ignorance doesn't work.

@17: You don't know what poverty is.
@18: How about the South Vietnamese journalists living in America who were assassinated for political reasons by North Vietnamese terrorists? Don't confuse your pitiful lack of knowledge for an actual lack of information.

@21
Why didn't they target white American "devils"?
Explain to me why the homeless and the working poor aren't turning into terrorists.

@20: You are mistaking the condition of the leadership for the condition of those populations from whom the rank and file are recruited.
It is to those rank and file members that iseult @13 refers.

@22: As I said, you don't know what poverty is. You have no idea the depths of despair to which humanity is sometimes prone. What do we get from American poverty? We get gangs, mostly, because the breakdown and disruption of society is nowhere near the level sufficient to breed terrorism.
Why did they target South Vietnamese rather than white Americans? Because they wanted to send a political message, and American leaders were too well protected. Also, because collaborators are perhaps worse than foreign opponents in their eyes. This is not at all difficult to understand; your simplistic little mind seems incapable of comprehending the terrible variety of human thought and experience.

@22: Well to hear Fox News go on and on about how Black Lives Matter is waging a war on cops, they already have.....

Has anyone made the equation

Pedosexuals : Catholicism :: Terrorists : Islam

Isn't that what it's about...although Islam is about 20 years behind the Catholics where its own membership and leadership is now outing the offenders?

How about if imams stood up in Mosques and said "we won't tolerate terror" in our religion any more. Post these speeches to YouTube for all the world to see.

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@26 This argument is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of Sunni Islam. Sunni Islam is a non-hierarchical organization of society where each individual and religious leader is individually accountable to their consciousness and god. The instructions to act by a Sunni imam (radical or mainline) have no more authority to the average Muslim than the instructions of the average Pentecostal serpent tamer has on members of the UCC. Imams have less direct authority over their congregation than the average mainline protestant preacher has over their own congregation.

In contrast Catholicism is organized around a hierarchical episcopate where a supervisory bishop has responsibility over all the priests/monks/nuns in their bishopric. With powers ranging from the denial of access to religious rights or economic resources all the way to excommunication and interdict. This is why we, and the law, expect the Catholic church to act as employers and leaders of a community. This is also why, beyond moral leadership, you should not expect any Sunni Imam to demonstrate similar leadership over the Ummah.

@11. Win.